Keith’s note: Last week the ATOM contract at NASA Ames which provides O&M support for the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (Code AO) and the Arc Jets (Code TSF) was informed […]
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NASA Ames Union Response to Executive Order 14343
Keith’s note: the following email was sent by the president of President AFEU/IFPTE local 30 at NASA Ames to employees: “Hello Everyone, On August 28, 2025, President Trump issued Executive […]
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NASA Touts A ‘Founding Document’ That You Cannot Easily Read (Update)
Keith’s update: A month ago, on 2 May 2024, NASA Ames posted “Researchers Develop âFounding Documentâ on Synthetic Cell Development“ which says “In a paper published recently in ACS Synthetic […]
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NASA Ames And NASA HQ STEM Ignore Each Other
NASA Lands in Oakland! New Partnership with Chabot Space & Science Center Will Create NASA Learning Opportunities in the East Bay, NASA Ames “A new partnership between NASA’s Ames Research […]
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Cool COVID-19 Research That NASA Does But Good Luck Finding It
Keith’s note: Look what I stumbled across in a Google news alert for “Ames Research Center”: “Founder of Philadelphia life sciences firms targets RNA as key to knocking out Covid-19 […]
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NASA Ames Public Affairs Is Asleep. Or Clueless. Probably Both.
Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, partners with NASA Ames to offer startups access to space technology “The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, announced this […]
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Yes, NASA Did Help Achieve Quantum Supremacy (Update)
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor, Nature “Our Sycamore processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times–our benchmarks currently indicate that […]
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Did NASA Ames Achieve Quantum Supremacy? (Update)
Keith’s update: Three days ago I asked NASA PAO these questions. “1. Why was this paper posted on NTRS, a publicly accessible NASA website and then taken offline? Will it […]
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Superfund Site Concerns at NASA Ames
NASA Ames workers worry over Superfund site’s toxins, Mountain View Voice “More recently, a 2013 U.S. Department of Defense report found toxic vapor levels exceeding EPA limits inside several occupied […]
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OIG Finds that Moffett That Lease Benefitted Taxpayers
Review of Allegations of Improper Leasing and Provision of Aircraft Fuel at Moffett Federal Airfield “The OIG found that consistent with NASA policy Ames based the price of its lease […]