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 […]
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Is NASA Going To Push Back – And If So Against What?
Growing wave of federal workers is pushing back against Trump, Washington Post “Presidents appoint the heads of agencies and a few officials at the top of each department, but the […]
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NASA Headquarters Transition Update – New 9th Floor Faces
Trump Names Former Climate Scientist Erik Noble to NASA Advisory Role, Wired “Trump named Autry his White House liaison, a role NASA Watch editor Keith Cowing calls “traditional” – and […]
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NASA Headquarters Transition Update
Message from the Acting Administrator of NASA “As the transition progresses, we have some initial assignments from the new administration. Erik Noble has been named White House Senior Advisor at […]
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NASA Landing Team To Be Replaced by "Beachhead Team"?
Keith’s note: Charles Miller has joined the NASA Landing Team. No word yet as to whether the conflict of interest checks for Alan Lindenmoyer and Alan Stern have been completed. […]
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Trump Landing Team Update
Keith’s 16 December note: The Trump Landing Team will be halting work at NASA Headquarters in a few days and then coming back after New Year’s. As such, I doubt […]
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Transition Team Seeks Names Of Climate Meeting Participants (Update)
Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings, Washington Post “Donald Trump’s transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy […]
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Welcome To NASA Administrator Apprentice
#NASA Administrator choice will be Gingrich/Walker(Bridenstine/new blood) Vs Sessions (Griffin/status quo) competition with Pence deciding — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 9, 2016 But "there is another" There's talk of a […]
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Waiting For TrumpSpace
Will Trump go to Mars? Nasa’s nervous wait, The Guardian “The space policies were not very different. People would joke that you could take an editorial by a Republican space […]
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Get Used To Having Less Money For NASA
Trump’s First 100 Days: Space, Scientific American “What is certain, [Bob] Walker says, is that Trump’s “space policy doesn’t contemplate any real increases in NASA’s spending.”, It will likely have […]