Keith’s note: Looks like NASA HQ is upset with me because I posted text of an email that multiple employees sent me with links that were included got overloaded. No mention of classification or proprietary nature. They are now blaming me – in this case in a phone call from NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens – for blocking people at #NASA from accessing the town hall. Yea its my fault for blocking NASA’s ability to serve up a simple webcast. This is wacky. The same organization that can program spacecraft in interstellar space has no idea how to do load balancing and traffic management. I think its time that I turn this damn thing off Jared Isaacman. When NASA blames a 70 year old retiree sitting in his basement for thousands of employees not hearing what you have to say then something is seriously screwed up – with NASA – not me. This is not a new problem with NASA IT. Now I guess I am waiting for some NASA IT cops to come after me. It was a mistake to bring NASAWatch back. Beam me up.
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
I am not sure they can accurately point fingers based on my experience trying to get in with two different NASA computers and a cell phone. None worked, giving a variety of flaky errors, web timeouts, and banners telling me to disable VPN (which was never a factor in the first place). I kept trying on my laptop while doing other work on my desktop, and finally got in just in time to hear the Q&A. I thought Mr. Isaacman did great — he’s a straight shooter, down to Earth, enthusiastic about the mission, and is clearly a smart person. Too bad NASA’s webcast infrastructure wasn’t up to the task. Guess what though, there are a lot of things wrong with NASA IT, so this was a fair sample.
Members of this administration appear to go out of their way to find scapegoats for lack of proper planning and poor execution. Keep up the good fight, Keith!