Keith’s note: I was just on Alhurra TV talking about the upcoming launch of the PACE mission and how it can contribute to our understanding of Earth’s climate. I lost the translator audio half way through for about 30 seconds – then it came back. The trick in doing these interviews is to speak and pause periodically so the translator can keep up (I used to be a Sign Language interpreter so I get that) and also to avoid NASA jargon and acronyms (which no one on Earth outside of NASA actually speaks), and present things in every day language for an audience who does not read NASA press releases every day. Here’s the [audio].

Q&A: Plotting U.S. Space Policy with White House Adviser Scott Pace, Scientific American “Heavy-lift rockets are strategic national assets, like aircraft carriers. There are some people who have talked about buying heavy-lift as a service as opposed to owning and operating, in which case the government would, of course, have to continue to own the intellectual properties so it wasn’t hostage to any one contractor. One could imagine this but, […]

Odds-on favorite amongst space policy watchers here in DC for exec sec of Nat'l Space Council is Scott Pace #humanstomars #NASA pic.twitter.com/lNbLs6EIvl — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 9, 2017

Expect changes in the "beachhead" team @NASA HQ in the coming weeks as frustrated participants give up due to lack of direction at #NASA pic.twitter.com/K3Kf71GGkd — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 20, 2017 Latest inside-the-beltway #NASA dream team being chattered about: Administrator: Jim Bridenstine Deputy Administrator: Scott Pace — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 18, 2017 Sources tell us that the impetus for Robert Lightfoot to send the SLS EM-1 crew memo […]

Mitt Romney: Lost in Space …, opinion, Jim Kohlenberger (former Obama OSTP official), Space News “In 2008, the U.S. Government Accountability Office had identified poor planning around the looming space shuttle retirement and its follow-on program as one of 13 “urgent issues” that any new president would have to confront when they came into office in 2009. Because of years of mismatch between vision and resources, the independent Augustine commission […]

AIAA to Hold Capitol Hill Dialogue on Deep Space Exploration “The panel … will be moderated by Dr. Scott Pace, director, Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University. … ” AIAA President Mike Griffin stated, “Human history is the story of societies expanding the frontiers of their time, exploiting and consolidating their gains on those frontiers, and moving on again. That history is not written by or about the people […]

NASA rebuts Cuyahoga County GOP claim of pending cuts at Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center “The Republican group’s news release also cited former NASA administrator Mike Griffin as a source on the layoffs. “The fact that the Obama administration is seriously considering moving human space flight work out of Glenn is deeply troubling,” Griffin is quoted as saying. “To eliminate Glenn’s role in human space flight is to call into question […]

Propellant Depots Instead of Heavy Lift?, opinion, By Michael D. Griffin and Scott Pace, Space News “The most reasonable claim made in support of fuel depots is that if they are employed to the exclusion of a heavy lifter, one saves the cost of building the heavy lifter. This is certainly true — but then we do not have a heavy lifter!” Keith’s note: Hilarious. Griffin and Pace cannot see […]