Donors to Electoral College Objectors, OpenSecrets “OpenSecrets compiled a list of the top donors to GOP lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. The dataset includes the top PAC donors, top individual donors and top industry donors to the campaigns and leadership PACs of lawmakers who objected to at least one state’s election results.” Keith’s note: This is what big aerospace thinks about American democracy […]

There is one openly self-identified @NASA employee – @Kirablackwell – who seems to be just fine with the whole #sedition and #insurrection thing in DC today – and has been tweeting about it all throughout the work day https://t.co/8gg64mJDPS #HatchAct pic.twitter.com/LirOHMKcml — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 7, 2021 Keith’s note: FYI earlier today I sent an email asking for comment on Blackwell’s political tweeting to the NASA NASA Office of […]

Keith’s note: I originally posted this on 7 August 2019. Give today’s political events I thought it was worth reposting. — In light of the naked racism and politics of division coming from the White House – and the impact that it has had on societal events of late – I need to say something. We are stronger as a result of our diversity – not weakened by it. Humanity […]

Keith’s note: Here we go again. Its presidential transition team season and all the space fans are lining up trying to get their ideas in front of the new Administration. As is usually the case someone starts a white paper and looks for supporters who invariably start to edit and nick pick and add wish lists. Space organizations such as the Space Foundation, the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, the […]

A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn’t budging, Washington Post “No agency head is going to get out in front of the president on transition issues right now,” said one senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The official predicted that agency heads will be told not to talk […]

#JoeBiden will apparently be the next President of the United States. @NASA / space issues will probably not be publicly discussed for a while. The official Biden/Harris Transition Team website is here: https://t.co/evKMOaoe63 #BuildBackBetter pic.twitter.com/IFtwTZxZnK — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 6, 2020

CNN just called the Arizona Senate race in favor of former @NASA Astronaut @CaptMarkKelly pic.twitter.com/nef4vq9iLS — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 6, 2020

Kelly Wins, Gardner and Horn Lose, Space Policy Online “A former NASA astronaut will join the ranks of the Senate in January, while two other notable space supporters, one in the Senate and one in the House, will be leaving according to election results called by the Associated Press (AP). Votes are still being counted, but two have already conceded.”

Roughly 4 years ago Donald Trump ruined Twitter for me. His lies and misleading statements have become his hallmark achievement. Someone recently said "Silence is not an option" and that has finally resonated with me. I appreciate that you've kept me in your scan. (1/2) — John Grunsfeld (@SciAstro) November 3, 2020 Here is an Op-Ed I penned. Please vote tomorrow for #JoeBiden and #KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/Lc2Vhzlv7i — John Grunsfeld (@SciAstro) […]

Opinion: Joe Biden can unite our pale blue dot, Houston Chronicle, Op Ed by Astronaut Garrett Reisman “As vice president, Biden followed the science. He made possible the funding that returned human space flight to the United States by partnering with private companies through NASA’s commercial crew program. He saved thousands of jobs in Texas by extending the International Space Station program until 2024, and as president he will continue […]

Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections, Washington Post “President Trump this week fired his biggest broadside yet against the federal bureaucracy by issuing an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants and dramatically remake the government. The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work […]

Keith’s note: The best way to ensure that space exploration is allowed to proceed in the way that it should is for everyone to just sit down and shut up. It never fares well when injected into presidential campaigns. When space is put along side something else or emphasized instead of something else invariably you get “what about [insert other issue] instead of space”. Oh yes: “manned presence”? “Manned mission […]

Offworld Voting “From the International Space Station: I voted today — Kate Rubins”

Senior space officials met to “war game” Biden administration space policy, Ars Technica “On Tuesday about a dozen space officials met virtually to simulate how a National Space Council might operate during a Joe Biden administration, should the Democratic Party nominee win the 2020 presidential election. The American Foreign Policy Council convened what it characterized as a “closed-door” and “scenario-based simulation” to understand how the Biden administration would think through […]

Well its obvious where the #StarTrek alumni vote is going this year. #TrekTheVote pic.twitter.com/xbaatm8xDi — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 13, 2020 Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president, Nature “No president in recent history has tried to politicize government agencies and purge them of scientific expertise on the scale undertaken by this one. The Trump administration’s actions are accelerating climate change, razing wilderness, fouling air and killing more wildlife […]

Sean O’Keefe Trump and the RNC abandoned the Republican platform and the legacy of Ronald Reagan, NBC “I have not always agreed with Biden, and it’s unlikely I will always agree with him if he is elected president. But when disagreements do occur, I will have returned to the ranks of the loyal opposition and will be able to express my objections and prescriptions by appealing to the deeply held […]

Trump: "We built a 6 million pound rocket, and launched it thousands of miles into space. We did it so that two brave patriots could stand tall and salute our wondrous American flag planted on the face of the Moon." #RNC2020 #Artemis — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 28, 2020 Trump: "We will put the first woman on the Moon and the United States will be the first to plant it's […]

"Soon Americans will be sent to Mars" – Eric Trump #RNC2020 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 26, 2020 Keith’s note: The prepared line was “And soon under my father’s leadership, it will send Americans to Mars.” OK Eric, what does “soon” mean? The target date for human Mars missions is still the mid 2030s. That is hardly “soon”. Maybe you should check with your brother-in-law Kyle Yunaska, the NASA Deputy […]