Keith’s 8:54 am EDT note: Former NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes is coming back – to NASA KSC as Senior Director of Launch Operations based at KSC and will […]
Keith Cowing
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 🖖🏻
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Contractor Conversion: Two Things Can Be True At NASA
Keith’s note: I posted an item Contractor Conversion Flaws Arise At NASA wherein I summarized information from multiple employees at NASA KSC about workforce contractor to civil servant conversion. Before […]
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Preparing For a Congressional Flip At NASA
Keith’s note: Prior to the arrival of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman a substantial part of NASA management direction was done verbally and not documented. Often times it was in direct […]
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Contractor Conversion Flaws Arise At NASA (Update)
Keith’s update: see “Contractor Conversion: Two Things Can Be True At NASA” Keith’s note: I have been hearing of some concern at NASA KSC (and elsewhere around NASA too) about […]
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Where Are Those 12,000 Artemis II Images?
Keith’s note: Imagine that I am a regular person trying to find those 12,000 Artemis II images from links in all the recent articles about them. If you go to […]
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Here’s To You, Ted Turner
Keith’s note: Keith’s note: There are lots of CNN stories being told this morning. Ted Turner has left us. But he’s still here. CNN gave him a window into the […]
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Stealthy NASA Science Advocacy
Keith’s note: Last Friday afternoon @ASGSRSpace (American Society for Gravitational and Space Research) tweeted that they “hosted an AVATAR Lunch & Learn with congressional staffers Thursday, connecting space biomedical research […]
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NASAWatch on i24: Artemis Accords
Keith’s note: I was just on i24 in Israel talking about the Artemis Accords (I used a visual aid), the Artemis II mission, international cooperation in space exploration, inspiration, and […]
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Administrator’s Thank You Note To NASA Employees
Keith’s note: the following was sent to NASA Employees today from Jared Isaacman: “I wanted to take another moment to express my appreciation for Janet Petro’s incredible contributions to her […]
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Janet Petro Is Retiring
Keith’s note: according to the NASA KSC posting “NASA announced Friday Janet Petro, center director for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is retiring. … Effective Friday, Kelvin Manning […]