Keith’s note: NASA has just published “Final rule – Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA– Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964” in the Federal […]
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The First Woman And First Person Of Color Just Went To The Moon
Keith’s note: A media question asked the crew about the removal of the initial “First woman and first person of color” aspirational tag line for Artemis from all NASA websites […]
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Update On USRA/LPI/LPSC Diversity Censoring
Keith’s note: On 1 July 2025 Mark Sykes, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, published an op ed titled “Taking Action Against Historical Censorship by USRA” which I reprinted […]
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NASA Intern Rose Ferreira Found Hope in the Moon
Keith’s note: This NASA article by Elizabeth Landau (in both English and Spanish) will be on NASAWatch – even if NASA tries to erase it – again – and please […]
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Erasing NASA Diversity Abstracts Is Not That Easy
Keith’s note: The NASA DEI Erasure Squad has been busy. If you search for past LPSC abstracts on DEI, DEIA, diversity etc. you’ll see that they have disappeared and prior […]
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DEI: Once Upon A Time
Keith’s note: According to this 2021 ENR article, Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro was firmly in the diversity-is-good camp back in the day. KSC Director Janet Petro Reflects on Diversity: […]
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NASA Science: Removing DEIA Requirements From ROSES-2024
Keith’s note: According to an email sent out late on Thursday: “On January 20th, 2025, the President of the United States of America signed an Executive Order entitled “Initial Rescissions […]
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Internal NASA Memo On Diversity Erasure
Keith’s note: Looks like Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro has totally bought into this. Her words. Update: In all fairness this is the OPM memo that Team Trump sent to […]
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Eliminating All DEI At NASA
Keith’s note: This NASA Diversity and Inclusion webpage will soon go dark. According to this Executive Action all government agencies are directed to “Terminate all “diversity,” “equity,” “equitable decision-making,” “equitable […]