Keith’s note: According to an agencywide note to NASA employees: “A Message From Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya Anticipation of Resuming Normal Operations: NASA Team, In anticipation of the passage of a bill that will end the government forward to welcoming all staff back from furlough as early as tomorrow. Please watch NASA’s external website for confirmation. If your situation returning to work tomorrow, please discuss this with your supervisor. Sincerely, Amit Kshatriya NASA Associate Administrator”.
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Lets be real, nothing is going to happen this week at all. Barely anything will happen for the rest of the year. Thanksgiving is around the corner, and then Christmas. Many people take a bunch of time off this time of year. Morale is already crushed. Reorgs are still happening or yet to come. This will more than likely affect Artemis 2, and most definitely beyond. You are just gonna have a bunch of people sitting around waiting to see what comes next. What comes next before the end of this year?
Meanwhile Duffy is doing what? Waving goodbye to air traffic controllers walking out? When is Jared getting in? Is he gonna get pulled out last minute again?
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Do the GSFC folks feel welcome?
It’s good that these moves are public information now, though many of the moves happened in June and many of the people who were “persuaded” to retire early or take the DRP are gone. I guess welcomed back to admin leave or welcomed to retirement?
Fun fact: the historic Welcome Wagon had it’s day and is no more.
Also fun fact: folks citing the GSFC master plan may want to acknowledge that closure of buildings was planned to be concomitant with construction and welcoming of new buildings. The Master Plan is mute wrt to 30-40% staffing departures.
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gsfc_master_plan_digest_feb2022_lo_res_website.pdf?emrc=e0f7a2
Final fun fact: The timeline for implementing that master plan is 2038…13 years from now.
“Through a combination of demolitions, renovations, and other moves, the plan charts a path to a 25% reduction in building square footage by 2038. Amounting to roughly 1.4 million square feet in total, the bulk of the reduction (almost 1.2 million square feet) would occur at Goddard’s principal campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, with the balance realized across the center’s five remote facilities and other sites.”
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/master-plan-for-nasas-goddard-space-flight-center-receives-approval/
Welcome, pedal to the metal.