Town Hall with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine “Headquarters is hosting an agencywide town hall with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 1 – 2 p.m. EST. Please join this important discussion as we return to work and begin the process of an orderly restart that ensures employee safety and security. All employees, contractors and civil servants, are encouraged to participate in person at Headquarters in the Webb […]
NASA Administrator Message: Thank You! Let’s Get Safely Back to the Business of Exploration “We understand the worry and confusion coming back to work may cause and we’re going to do our best to keep you informed as agency systems are brought back online and you’re asked to pick up where you left off more than a month ago. As you probably know, the President signed S.24, the “Federal Employee […]
The following is from @NASA: "Due to the enactment of a continuing resolution, NASA is OPEN. Employees should report to work on their next regularly scheduled workday. Please see https://t.co/aCwCTJ8Bzg for more information. " — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 26, 2019
White House and Congress have reached an agreement to end the #govermentshutdown today. Government will re-open for 3 weeks. — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 25, 2019
Welp, as of tomorrow at 5pm CST, LPI is furloughed. No work related to the LPI will be allowed. Only work related to individual, PI-led grants can continue. I am luckily fine funding wise for a while, but many others at LPI aren't. @PlanetTreky — Justin Filiberto (@Mars_Chlorine) January 24, 2019
JSC Unites – Employee Furlough Support Open House at the Gilruth Center Destiny Ballroom on Friday, January 25th from 11a-1p. Details on https://t.co/MqFnxB9in0 — JSC SOS (@JSCSOS) January 23, 2019
Keith’s note: And while NASA employees at MCC are doing someone else’s job in addition to their own, the custodial staff is sitting at home and will never be paid. ?@JohnCornyn? ?@SenTedCruz? ?@RepBrianBabin? This is our reality at the Johnson Space Center. We now have no custodial services while we work without pay to keep the International Space Station operating?#EndTheShutdown pic.twitter.com/QjDDpJuxwo — Elizabeth Blome (@SpaceEliz) January 24, 2019
Keith’s note: If you go to NASA NSPIRES (NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System) website you will see the following notice: “The NSPIRES Help Desk is not available due to a power outage in the building. Expect responses to your email inquiries within 24 hours. The phone service is not available. If the partial federal shutdown extends past January 31, then NSPIRES will be unavailable due to […]
Keith’s update: Emily Lakdawalla has posted a multi-tweet apology/clarification which includes a screengrab of her original tweet. “Since I clearly didn’t communicate well with a previous tweet, I’m going to try again, but am including a screen cap of the deleted tweet here so people understand what I meant. It’s my job to be a communicator and I failed here.” This is absolutely awful @elakdawalla People have died in service […]
Keith’s note: With one exception in the Jim Bridenstine memo – in one sentence – these memos deal only with the impact of the shutdown on NASA civil servants – not on contractor employees. Contractor employees are not being paid either and may never be paid. NASA Internal Employee Memo: An Update to the Furlough “While many of you may not immediately see this message, I wanted to send a […]
