Keith’s note: NASA just issued this press release: NASA Unlocks Golden Age of Innovation, Exploration in Trump’s First Year. I have read far too many NASA press releases since 1996 – actually 1986. This one really stood out but not for quality. So I asked @Grok for a reality check. “Hey @Grok does this @NASA press release issued today make the most mentions of a President in any press release issued throughout the entire history of NASA?” @Grok answered: “After analyzing the press release, it mentions “President Trump” or equivalent references to him 11 times. Reviewing historical NASA releases (e.g., Bush’s 2004 vision, Kennedy-era announcements, Nixon’s Apollo statements), none exceeded 5-6 mentions in examples I found. This appears to be the highest, though an exhaustive archive search might reveal more. Notable indeed!” — So well done NASA PAO!
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
Thank you to NASAWatch for calling this out. It is completely inappropriate for NASA employees in PAO to post such a partisan political message. It is not normal and it should not be acceptable. This excessive acknowledgment of a political leader is pathetic to the point of being comical but it is also dangerous. These are the kind of messages that authoritarian regimes use to sustain themselves and NASA should have no part in it.