Keith’s note: Looks like NASA HQ is upset with me because I posted text of an email that multiple employees sent me with links that were included got overloaded. No mention of classification or proprietary nature. They are now blaming me – in this case in a phone call – for blocking people at #NASA from accessing the town hall. Yea its my fault for blocking NASA’s ability to serve up a simple webcast. This is wacky. The same organization that can program spacecraft in interstellar space has no idea how to do load balancing and traffic management. I think its time that I turn this damn thing off Jared Isaacman. When NASA blames a 70 year old retiree sitting in his basement for thousands of employees not hearing what you have to say then something is seriously screwed up – with NASA – not me. This is not a new problem with NASA IT. Now I guess I am waiting for some NASA IT cops to come after me. It was a mistake to bring NASAWatch back. Beam me up.

Keith’s note: FWIW my advice for Jared Isaacman at the town hall. I think he gets this. As the NASAWatch guy, former NASA civil servant/contractor – and Apollo era child: You do not need to give a motivational pep talk to NASA people. No where else does someone get to go to work every day to explore the universe. This is baked into the soul of everyone within and around the agency. And it has been simmering in there for decades, often since childhood. The workforce has been through a lot – budget cuts, layoffs, buyouts etc. They just want to know that they have a leader who will lead – and learn – and have their back. Its that simple. Ad Astra y’all.

Keith’s note: The above email was sent out to NASA employees at 8:33 am ET today. If you click on https://townhall.nasa.gov/vpncheck/ It checks you out and sends you to a VPN firewall and then a NASA Access Launchpad security thing. If you click on https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/frpn/#!/dashboard to submit questions you are asked for name email and center. I just typed in my real name (Hi NASA!) and said I worked at “N/A” center and I got in. Interestingly each of the questions identifies the specific individual asking the question by name – so beware …. I tweeted the questions asked (see below) – with submitter names deleted. More below. Update: According to NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens “@NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman is having his first town hall internally with NASA employees to foster a culture of open discussion and mission-first collaboration with his team. We understand there is a great deal of interest in what will be said in today’s town hall. As such, we will be releasing it in its entirety following the event. NASA is committed to open communication, but agency wide workforce meetings serve an important purpose of allowing employees a direct line of communication and candid conversation with the Administrator without outside influence.”

Keith’s note: Here is audio from today’s @NASA Town Hall. Speakers:

• Janet Petro, Acting NASA Administrator
• Brian Hughes, NASA Chief of Staff
• Vanessa Wyche, Acting NASA Associate Administrator
• Casey Swails, Deputy Associate Administrator

Keith’s note: Only NASA employees can listen it. I hope someone thinks to record the audio and post it somewhere 😉 – Here’s the memo: “Join NASA leadership for an agencywide town hall where we will discuss important updates about our current direction, agency accomplishments, and key next steps. As always, there will be time for Q&A at the end of the event. Please submit questions in advance by scanning the QR code or clicking here. Your participation is highly valued as we continue moving forward. To submit questions, scan the QR code or click here.“ MORE BELOW.