EmDrive, a Supposed Fuel-less Engine, Is Knocked Down Again, Gizmodo “Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in […]
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Posted inSLS and Orion
More Wasteful EPO Spending at NASA
NASA GRC Educational and Outreach Support for NASA’s Orion Program “NASA/GRC intends to contract to Alphaport, Inc. This is a follow-on effort to activities originally performed by Alphaport under contract […]
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GRC Center Reorganization Update
NASA GRC Internal Memo: Center Reorganization Update “In my June message, I indicated that I would be working to assign SES personnel to positions and would then be validating those […]
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Whose Vacuum Chamber is Bigger: JSC or GRC? (Update)
NASA Plum Brook vacuum chamber in Sandusky is the largest in the world, despite what NASA folks in Texas claim, Cleveland.com “The vacuum chamber at Plum Brook, called the Space […]
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Layoffs at GRC and GSFC?
More than 150 NASA Glenn jobs in jeopardy, Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s office says, Cleveland Plain Dealer “NASA Glenn Research Center stands to lose more than 150 jobs when automatic spending […]
Posted inCommercialization
Do NASA Employees Directly Generate New Business Activity?
NASA GRC Award: Continuing Non-NASA New Business Support Services “Contract Award Amount: $400,000 Contractor: Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC 1401 K St NW STE 900 Washington, DC 20005-3455 Description: Continuing Non-NASA […]
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Ray Lugo Lands at Florida Space Institute
Keith’s note: Former NASA GRC Center Director Ray Lugo is now Director of the Florida Space Institute. No press release issued that I can find.
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Lugo's GRC Reorganization Plan Continues
Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center seeking stability with uncertainties ahead for NASA, Cleveland Plain Dealer “During an eight-week stretch this summer, for instance, a prominent NASA blogger reported that Lugo was […]
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GRC Procurement: Time Machine Required To Bid
Keith’s 25 October note: NASA GRC put out this small business set aside solicitation “Alarm Philosophy Development Workshop” on 25 October 2012. Responses are due a mere 24 hours later […]
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Lugo's Big Mistake: Changes Ahead at GRC Halted
– Larger GRC Org Chart image Keith’s update: This recent Glenn Research Center reorganization attempt by Ray Lugo was in direct defiance of orders given out by Charlie Bolden to […]