Keith’s note: Thereâs now a “Project Athena” to fix Artemis, Orion, and lots of Greek mythology things; a plan developed by someone; reimagined by someone else; leaked but never published; […]
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Stuck Inside The Space Bubble
Keith’s note: Speaking as a person bitten by a space bug at age 6 in 1961, nothing in this Planetary Society piece “A cosmic perspective worth fighting for“ is actually […]
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NASA Forecast For September 2025
Keith’s note: OK so I am ‘back’. Thanks for all the kind words, support etc. Let’s get down to business. The month of September is going to be the hardest […]
Posted inArtemis, Commercialization, Congress, News, Policy, TrumpSpace
NASA’s Random Policy Process
Keith’s note: Last week two internal NASA directives dropped – except NASA has yet to officially release them: NASA Commercial LEO Space Stations Acquisition Strategy and Directive on Fission Surface […]
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De-Politicizing Science By Politicizing It
Keith’s note: As the Administration seeks to gut funding of all government science agencies, they have issued another word salad executive order – one that could have been expressed in […]
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Chaos is not a plan.
Keith’s note: All the space policy ‘experts’ claim that the Administration has a firm “plan” for NASA. If indeed it exists, then the chaos at NASA – programs gutted, people […]
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Look Up At The Sky Once In A While
Keith’s Rant #1: I wonder âĤ while these DOGE folks are busy scurrying around eliminating people and things at NASA – do they ever stop to look up at the […]
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The View From Inside The Space Bubble
Keith’s Rant #2: FYI Space fans. There are lots of people inside DC who function inside one little policy bubble or another. These bubbles are, by definition, partially sealed off […]
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Space Fans Yelling In A Sound Proof Room
Keith’s Rant #3: It is getting tiresome watching space fans sit in their sound proof rooms writing about space fantasies on social media and op eds in niche publications. These […]
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NASA Denies Employee Censorship
Keith’s note: NASA PAO just provided this statement with regard to my post You Must Hide Your Pride At NASA (they waited 4 days to respond) which was cited in […]