Keith’s note: The Houston Chronicle took a look at 2025 layoffs and the newly-announced NASA Force. “Accepting the buyout was a difficult decision for many NASA employees. Keith Cowing, a […]
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Honest Real Time Answers From NASA
Keith’s note: Space Twitter has a lot of noise. Mostly noise. Lots of snark. Some times an obvious question emerges. This was directed at Jared Isaacman:“What launch cadence do you […]
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Centaur V Upper Stage Added To Artemis IV and V
Keith’s note: this procurement notice appeared today. Looks like Jared Isaacman is not wasting any time in his rebooting of the Artemis architecture: “NASA/MSFC has a requirement for next-generation upper […]
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Senate Confirmation Hearing For Matt Anderson
Keith’s note: The Senate CS&T Committee held the confirmation hearing for Matthew Anderson to be Deputy Administrator of NASA. He sailed through with the usual questions from both sides of […]
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Rebuilding Core Competencies Within NASA
Keith’s note: Jared Isaacman spoke at the a16z event about the lack of core competencies and extensive outsourcing at NASA is “why we’re $100 billion deep into [Artemis]”and how OPM […]
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Lawsuit Filed Over Goddard Library Closure
Keith’s note: A lawsuit was filed on 19 February in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concerning the closure of the NASA Goddard library and the disposition […]
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And Now We Have “NASA Force”
Keith’s note: According to a tweet by @NASAAdmin: “Today, weâre launching NASA Force with @USOPM Returning to the Moon requires restoring core competencies in our civil servant workforce. This program […]
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NASAWatch on DW: Artemis Update
Keith’s note: I was just on Deutsche Welle TV talking about today’s Artemis programmatic change s- and the impacts that may or may not have on Europe and other internationals […]
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Major Artemis Program Changes Announced
Keith’s note: In an update today NASA Administrator Isaacman announced that Artemis III will not land on the Moon but will be a test mission in Earth orbit for docking […]
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NASA HQ Personnel Changes
Keith’s note: SOMD AA Ken Bowersox is retiring from NASA. According to a NASA press release: “Joel Montalbano will serve as the acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission […]