Keith’s note: Heads Up NASA Family: “I hope this message finds you well. This summer, a lightning strike hit my home, leaving me without my belongings, just before Father’s Day—a […]
NASA Culture
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Let’s Stop Going In Circles And Go Somewhere Once Again
Once upon a time humans took short trips to the Moon. Then we stopped. Now we are going back – to stay. The prospect of an actual Moon base wherein […]
Posted inActivism, Artemis, Astronauts, Exploration, History, NASA Culture, News, TrumpSpace
Building Momentum
Keith’s note: The Artemis II mission got off to a slow start. Then it hit the road at warp speed. The novelty of a Moon mission and swelling media coverage […]
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Ed Buckbee
Keith’s note: according to this article “The U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s first director, Edward “Ed” Buckbee, has died. He was 89. Hailed as a visionary, he assembled and managed […]
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An Unnoticed Historical Resonance
Keith’s note: The exploration of space holds endless resonances with the exploration of Earth:
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A Long Overdue Paradigm Shift
Keith’s note: The path NASA was on included ISS and one, maybe two, LEO space stations requiring heavy subsidies – plus the mini-lunar space station Gateway. Funding was lacking for […]
Posted inEducation, NASA Culture, News, Personnel News, Soft Power, Workforce
Announcing “NASA Front Door”
Keith’s note: An interesting ‘Notice of new information collection‘ from NASA appeared in the Federal Register this morning about the “NASA Front Door”. It is not totally clear as to […]
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NASA Outreach Sugar Highs
Keith’s note: In case you have not already noticed NASA and space exploration have a deep branding and meme penetration. These two ads just ran (again) back to back midday […]
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NASA Needs To Leverage Its Cool Tech Better
Keith’s note: NASA posted this interesting news on Friday: “Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars“. This is a standard press release thing without much thought as to how […]
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Another NASA DEIA Thing To Purge (Update)
Keith’s 2 Jan 2025 update: I posted this a year ago. We are coming up on the agency’s Remembrance Day observations. We’re about to see humans return to the Moon. […]