NASA Leadership Likes The $6 Billion Budget Cut
Keith’s note: According to this Fox News story “NASA backs Trump budget blueprint with $6B cut to agency“ – “The reductions in the President’s blueprint budget counterintuitively represent an opportunity to truly innovate in how we conduct our space missions,” senior NASA official Ryan Whitley told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement.” In other words “Bye Bye $6 billion – we don’t really need you after all” FYI According to Janet Petro on 14 February 2025: “New Senior Advisor Appointment: This week, we welcomed Ryan Whitley as a new senior advisor to the administrator. With experience in both commercial and civil space, Ryan is a senior executive who has led significant business development, program management, and engineering efforts. Prior to leading commercial space activities, he managed engineering teams at multiple NASA centers and served as a director of civil space policy for the National Space Council.”
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“New Senior Advisor Appointment”
Political Appointee that I am sure does not speak for all NASA Leadership and general personnel.
Whitley is an advisor to the NASA Administrator. He was quoted – by name – on Fox. I can assure you that he is not talking to Fox unless the NASA press secretary is aware of it.
He definitely isn’t “NASA Leadership”
Whitley is an advisor to the NASA Administrator. He was quoted – by name – on Fox. I can assure you that he is not talking to Fox unless the NASA press secretary is aware of it.
Not sure who this guy is, but it looks like neither he nor the rest of leadership care about science. By the way, this week is supposed to be #BlackHoleWeek, but NASA leadership canceled it. Guess black holes are DEI.
No. He isn’t. At least not yet.
“Necessity is the mother of invention” and all that, amirite?
With this budget proposal, the old adage “do more with less” will soon become the next challenge for the
NASA team to embrace. That’ll be followed by cutting corners to meet administration deadlines/goals for lack of people and proper funding until the inevitable happens.
And that usually doesn’t end well. Only getting 2 out of 3 of “better, faster, cheaper” hasn’t changed yet.