OMB/OSTP Want To "Assure America’s Continued Space Dominance" - NASA Watch
Yesterday OMB director Russell Vought and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios issued a memo| NASA Watch
Yesterday OMB director Russell Vought and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios issued a memo| NASA Watch
NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States| NASA Watch
Once upon a time NASA PAO would have talked about increasing diversity| NASA Watch
You may recall that NASA has pushed a huge portion of its science and engineering workforce out the door| NASA Watch
I will be on "CNN This Morning" at 6:35 am EDT| NASA Watch
NASA announcement of biosignatures on Mars| NASA Watch
NASA's budget is going to be slashed one way or another.| NASA Watch
NASA pushes out narratives (issued from the White House) about winning the "second space race" to the Moon.| NASA Watch
Several sources report that the NASA GISS lease of the Armstrong Hall building in New York City can't be broken by| NASA Watch
In addition to erasing NASA's Union rights| NASA Watch
The White House has issued an Executive Order that strips the ability of NASA employees (and employees at other agencies) to organize unions.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: In my earlier rant I mentioned the crap that I have been going through which certainly pales in comparison to what NASA and contractor employees have to endure as their dream jobs are stripped away for no reason other than to meet a body count quota. I am pretty good at running interference for all of you who have helped me amass what nonsense is going so as […]| NASA Watch
The White House brags about their new Intel equity stake that the President openly says they got for "free"| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: SpaceX just conducted a full duration static test firing of 31 Raptor engines (1 shutdown, 1 was shut down) on Starship producing enough thrust to still reach orbit – the most powerful rocket humans have ever built or fired. Sorry SLS. Video below.| NASA Watch
This is the internal RIF planning chart circulating within NASA the Human Health and Performance Contract community.| NASA Watch
One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: the occupant’s last whiteboard message is a common sight across NASA. A wealth of expertise and dedication is being mindlessly forced out, undermining NASA’s leadership in space exploration. Ad Astra Per Aspera y’all. Larger image below.| NASA Watch
NASA is chartered to do climate science| NASA Watch
OMB needs to start rowing in the same direction| NASA Watch
White House Executive Order "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking" dropped today| NASA Watch
Keith's note to NASA employees and contractor partners| NASA Watch
The White House put out a commercial space policy executive order| NASA Watch
NASA is pulling out of the ISSRDC conference.| NASA Watch
This is really starting to get petty Sean and Brian| NASA Watch
There is a lot of public favor for the idea of the U.S. returning to the moon| NASA Watch
A lot of media focus has been on departing NASA civil servants (which sucks)| NASA Watch
NASA’s Deferred Resignation Program| NASA Watch
a rating that falls short to be considered effective.| NASA Watch
Spain is willing to offer up to €400 million to attract the Thirty Meter Telescope| NASA Watch
Apparently NASA Interim AdministratorSean Duffy was actually onsite at NASA HQ briefly last Friday.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Apparently Janet Petro did not ‘Embrace The Challenge’ hard enough when it came to getting people at NASA to quit – thus leading to her replacement – even thought the NASA website says she is still in charge. At least that is what senior NASA leadership tells me. Interim (i.e part time) NASA Administrator (and also Secretary of Transportation) Sean Duffy is a 100% Administration loyalist so he […]| NASA Watch
an effort is underway to get rid of their satellite inventory| NASA Watch
Meta has suspended the Facebook NASAWatch page - again.| NASA Watch
As of today the current number of NASA civil servants who are departing| NASA Watch
As you have probably heard by now the elements that compose Earth and all of the life on it came from the stars.| NASA Watch
As we approach Independence Day| NASA Watch
An Interstellar Comet Is Moving Through Our Star System| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Those of you in the space community know that NASA Science is facing an immense budget cut. Dozens of missions have been cancelled and many missions that are still returning valuable data are being shut off – in many cases to save a few million dollars – a tiny fraction of what it took to mount the missions in the first place. This data will be lost. In […]| NASA Watch
I spent several hours at NASA HQ this morning at the protest event| NASA Watch
I simply do not understand why the Planetary Society| NASA Watch
ASA Won two Emmy awards last night| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to this NASA Artemis page: “NASA will land the first woman, first person of color, and first international partner astronaut on the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.” The “first person of color“ phrase was added during the Biden Administration but the “first woman” line emerged during the Trump 1.0 Administration. Let’s see how the Diversity purge affects this […]| NASA Watch
HLS program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan is retiring at the end of the month - via an email to the HLS work force.| NASA Watch
Looks like the folks in Cleveland are taking a stand.| NASA Watch
Last night NASA SMD AA Nicky Fox was presented with the Collier Award for NASA's Parker Solar Probe| NASA Watch
NASA Headquarters has decided to postpone this event| NASA Watch
My sources and various news outlets are reporting| NASA Watch
Soon-to-be-NASA-Administrator Jared Isaacman just posted this on Twitter in response to some comments| NASA Watch
ared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator| NASA Watch
NSF has ended a long list of Internal advisory committees but is keeping FACA committees| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: I am hearing that here will be a OMB-issued FY 2026 budget coming out at 3:30 pm EDT on Friday followed by a NASA budget briefing around 5:30 PM EDT. Audio only. Invitation only. They are doing this on a Friday which has the added benefit of missing lots of news deadlines etc. Thus dampening the release of bad news – because you know that is what this […]| NASA Watch
The current Administration's erasure of science across various government agencies is being dialed up.| NASA Watch
Now that NASA has been told to cancel Gateway what happens to all its pieces?| NASA Watch
According to "NASA, in surprise shift, may launch rockets to Mars next year" in Politico:| NASA Watch
Two big Astrobiology/Space Science stories came out today based on NASA mission| NASA Watch
Keith's note: according to NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy at Science| NASA Watch
Yesterday 6 people on the Blue Origin NS-31 flight crossed the Kármán line and entered "space".| NASA Watch
Apparently the crew of the Blue Origin NS-31 suborbital flight had a great time today.| NASA Watch
According to this 2021 ENR article, Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro| NASA Watch
Transcript: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on “Face the Nation,” July 14, 2019, CBS CBS: “So the first steps [on the Moon] in 2024 will be by a woman?” Bridenstine: “That’s the goal.” Women are less supportive of space exploration, but putting a woman on the Moon might change that, The Conversation “From my perspective as a space policy analyst, this is an important message for NASA to send. Women have […]| NASA Watch
On Friday, with less than an hour's notice, David Dutcher, Boeing's vice president and program manager for the SLS rocket| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to a Blue origin posting: “New Glenn successfully completed an integrated launch vehicle hotfire test today, the final major milestone on our road to first flight. NG-1 will carry a Blue Ring Pathfinder as its first manifested payload and will launch from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL.” Social media postings (as yet unconfirmed) cite a 6 January 2025 launch date target (again, unconfirmed). Soon NASA’s […]| NASA Watch
