Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 28 on 1 Apr 2024 (not a joke). It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 with this post “RIF at NASA In Summer 1997?”. The website was first hosted on a Mac Classic II on a 128 kbps ISDN line in a little condo in Reston, Virginia (see 20 Years Ago Today: The Seeds of NASAWatch). I sincerely doubt there will be many future birthdays for this website. Besides, Dan Goldin and I have a mutual admiration society thing going over on LinkedIn 😲. Meanwhile, here are a few things from those early days that are still online:

• Rogue Webmasters, Government Executive, 1 Oct 1996
• NASA’s Most Important Asset, Gerry Griffin, 31 December 1996
• Changes in Thinking At NASA November 29, 1996, PBS News Hour

Keith’s note: I thought I might be on TV today to talk about the launch of a Chinese space station module or a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Nope. Instead I was on CTV talking at 4:50 pm EST about the threat of a newly discovered asteroid and on Al Jazeera at 6:10 pm EST talking about threats from solar activity. Its Disaster Tuesday for Keith. Audio links below.

Keith’s note: today’s launch has been scrubbed due to an issue with engine 3. The NASA TV spokesman said that this was something that NASA had wanted to test in Wet Dress 4 but did not. So this was the first time they tried it. Meanwhile I am doing lots of media interviews (again)

How It Started | How It’s Going Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 26 on 1 Apr 2022. It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 with this post “RIF at NASA In Summer 1997?“. The website was first hosted on a Mac Classic II on a 128 kbps ISDN line in my old little condo in Reston, Virginia (see 20 Years Ago Today: The Seeds of NASAWatch). Here are a […]

How It Started | How It’s Going Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 25 on 1 Apr 2021. It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 with this post “RIF at NASA In Summer 1997?“. The website was first hosted on a Mac Classic II on a 128 kbps ISDN line in my old little condo in Reston, Virginia (see 20 Years Ago Today: The Seeds of NASAWatch). Here are a […]

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Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 24 on 1 Apr 2020. It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 and was first hosted on a Mac Classic II on an ISDN line in my little condo in Reston, Virginia (see 20 Years Ago Today: The Seeds of NASAWatch). Here a few things from those early days that are still online: – Rogue Webmasters, Government Executive, 1 Oct 1996 – NASA’s Most […]

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Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 19 on 1 Apr 2015. It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 and was first hosted on a Mac Classic II on an ISDN line. Here a few things from those early days that are still online: Rogue Webmasters, Government Executive, 1 Oct 1996 “A committee of headquarters employees nominated Cowing for an agency award for running the RIF Watch site. But NASA Associate […]