Keith’s note: Yea – far too much snark, frustration, and lecturing from Keith on Twitter today. My A.I. -free, human-generated top ten list:
- People who lecture the govt about space commerce eventually want a hand out.
- Big aerospace has lost its way and is bloated from cost-plus cash cows.
- Like it or not layoffs and budget cuts are here to stay and are a wake up call that cannot be ignored by NASA & industry.
- It’s easy – and lazy fun – to blame China for our sluggish space progress.
- At some point @NASAAdmin is going to light a fire under absolutely everyone and you can either be motivated or get your butt toasted.
- NASA does not have the right work force or collective skillset to retain its current leadership in space forever.
- Few if any government or private sector entities have the vast global reach and brand awareness or soft power projection that NASA has – if only NASA took the time to understand how to use it.
- After 70 years NASA still has no clear idea how to explain its contributions to taxpayers or what the cost/benefit/ROI of these things are in the grander scheme of things.
- NASA has no strategic plan. They haven’t had anything close to such a strategy for over half a century – instead they rely upon slogans and talking points.
- NASA has sent missions to touch the sun, sent humans to another world, visited every planet in our solar system while discovering thousands of planets in other star systems, looked back to the dawn of time, and now has spaceships traversing interstellar space. No other nation even comes close to such an astonishing track record. And many people feel that we have only begun to realize the benefits of this half century of American leadership.
- Despite points 1-9, point 10 stands most inexplicably and – yet proudly – apart. Does NASA excel in spite of all the self-inflicted inefficiencies? Color me frustrated @rookisaacman Imagine what would be possible if we fixed these things. #AdAstra y’all.
