Embrace The Challenge NASA Town Hall with Janet Petro
NASA Town Hall
Keith’s note: Only NASA employees can listen it. I hope someone thinks to record the audio and post it somewhere 😉 – Here’s the memo: “Join NASA leadership for an agencywide town hall where we will discuss important updates about our current direction, agency accomplishments, and key next steps. As always, there will be time for Q&A at the end of the event. Please submit questions in advance by scanning the QR code or clicking here. Your participation is highly valued as we continue moving forward. To submit questions, scan the QR code or click here.“ MORE BELOW.
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Janet did not look happy to be there.
Decision making structures
Decision velocity (speed) – Funding (drag) – Spending (trajectory) = Ya’ll screwed
Let me save you the time.
Mostly non answers and avoidance.
Will there be center closures?
-maybe, they are considering it.
-will illegally implement changes based on a budget that has no legal authority.
-better be aligned with private industry procurement or your the first to go.
-maintaining technical expertise and knowledge? Whats that?
-science budget? They dont advocate for better science duh. Golden age of science.
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Yeah, that sounds about right. Kinda glad I couldn’t log in to listen hahaha.
I missed any mention of center closures. Are you referring to the comment that “everything’s on the table” for cost-cutting? Or was there a more specific question about it?
yea he didn’t say it explicitly, but when they were asked they used executive double to talk to answer without making people unhappy.
Oh the Acting administrator personally thanked the Goddard Center Director for helping with this subjectively awful plan to turn NASA into a money laundering device for SpaceX is pretty good vindication for when I questioned the motives of the Goddard Center Director and the comment got deleted.
I missed the guy’s name and title/function, but it felt like he was really there from the Administration to keep everyone in line and on message.
Exactly. I felt the same way.
Yeah, I was in the room, they were not taking questions from the room, other than the one from the earth scientist that got a non-answer.
He’s Brian Hughes, the NASA Chief of Staff. Formerly he was the National Security Council spokeperson Mike Waltz attempted to add to the Yemen strike Signal chat, but added Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic instead.
Janet should conserve whatever shred of dignity and respect from her peers she still has left and resign (hey, maybe the DRP Is an option she should consider). It’s clear to everyone this is the leftover plan from Elon, who wanted to erode the agency into nothing but a money-distributor to SpaceX. Has anyone even bothered to ask what the plan is now that Trump and Elon have gone their separate ways? Clearly, our agency stands little chance of making Artemis a success with this kind of “leadership”, let alone a trip to Mars (and once again, this was an Elon want, parroted by Trump). We are coercing thousands of talented employees to leave for no reason at all. Fiscal responsibility? Give me a break. Even the Space Force is funded more than NASA at this point. Both parties are laughing at the concept of the debt ceiling. We aren’t shying away from our wallet when it comes to getting involved in international conflicts.
I am also repulsed by the comments made by her cronies. For one – how is any of this supported by previous trends? Even years with a slight reduction do not add up to what they’re moving forward with. Also – “that can still fund a lot of good science” – seriously? Incredibly insulting.
Don’t even get me started on the “well, the president is her boss! She has to follow orders!” For one – she does not. For two, Bridenstine negotiated with Trump numerous times on the best solution. Third – how recently has the Trump admin even weighed in on this post Elon/DOGE? Congress has given all of us reassurances that the skinny bill is dead on arrival, yet leadership spreads lies to indicate the exact opposite.
NASA has always struggled with poor leadership, but this really takes the cake. I hope she can live with the fact that NASA and aerospace as a whole would be way better off if she never got involved. I’m sorry if that sounds shocking to others, but it’s the truth.
Agreed. Janet needs to take DRP yesterday.
To me this cemented the need to return NASA to scientist leadership. These people have no concept of the intrinsic value of science or NASA, because they’ve never done it. Janet’s comment on the “strong name brand” of NASA was gross. It’s strong because it’s been earned over decades, before either of us, but it can be destroyed and she’s working on it.
I heard from a NASA employee that there was no RIF planned at this very moment. Will planning begin in the future? I dunno. I would guess “probably” if the DRP, VERA, VSIP do not get the numbers they seek (whatever they are)
I’ve got to commend Casey Smails. Up on stage with Brian Hughes, new chief of staff, former Trump campaign manager for the state of Florida, and somehow he wasn’t the slimiest person up there.
Seems to me everyone was more than willing and excited to implement Trump’s (Musk) budget. We also heard humans to moon to Mars is a major goal. I guess aeronautics and science not priority because it has nothing to do with moon to Mars.
I think this whole humans to Mars is ridiculous (men on Mars has always been 20 years into the future). I don’t think we will ever land on the moon. Every attempt to return to the moon has failed because planners focused on a lunar exit strategy before they figured how to land on the moon. The current artwork doesn’t impress me like what Tom Kelly’s team released when they got the contract for the LM.