Keith’s note: A picture of the NASA Ames Honor Awards event submitted by someone who was there. Note the shirt in the front row. The post Laid Off With Honor At NASA appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Interplanetary Memorial to Victims of Sept. 11, 2001: “The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction. The piece serves as a cable guard for the rock abrasion tool on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as well as a memorial […] The post An Offworld Memorial To 9-11 Victims appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: I’m going to skip going into DC to cover the 15 September protest at NASA HQ . To protect sources let me just say that there are some people in the building who’d love to have security jump on me for crossing an invisible line on the sidewalk or use video to see who I talk to on the sidewalk. Paranoid? Yup. The post Skipping The 15 Sep Protest appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: according to NASA: NASA Team, I am pleased to announce that I have selected Amit Kshatriya as our new Associate Administrator, the agency’s top civil service position, effective immediately. This permanent appointment reflects our commitment to putting exploration at the very heart of NASA’s mission and ensuring we have proven leadership to guide us forward. Many of you know Amit from his distinguished 20-year career with our agency. […] The post Leadership Announcement:...| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Special thanks to some NASA JPL folks who called me on Friday – out of the blue – people I did not know – until now. While some temporary NASA HQ employees try to destroy America’s space exploration leadership by decimating the agency’s workforce, the people who actually do the exploring will remain undeterred and undaunted. #DareMightyThings The post Thanks JPLers appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
GESTA recently received notification of Agency Management’s intent to modify NASA’s policies and procedures governing Reductions in Force (RIFs)| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: There will be another “Save NASA” protest at NASA Headquarters on Monday Sept. 15th. This is the third “Save NASA” protest in Washington, DC. More below The organizers say: “we are a peaceful protest group, and we stand in solidarity with other scientific advocacy groups. This protest intends to raise public awareness and provide information about present and near-future cuts at NASA, and to urge Congress to pass […] The post Another “Save NASA” Protest At NASA...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: NASA held an internal all hands briefing this morning. Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said that is giving a lot of authority to the new NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. Duffy is not sure how long he will be acting Administrator since there are no plans in place but that could change. Duffy said that American needs to get to the Moon before China and then go on […] The post NASA Briefed Employees This Morning (Audio) appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
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 yet for NASA. Multiple budget profiles will collide with one another – in an inelastic fashion. Missions will be on hold and operate in holding pattern mode. Other missions will simply die at the hands of budgeteers. And the people […] The post NASA Forecast For September 2025 appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Oh yes, In addition to erasing NASA’s Union rights, this Executive Order says that NASA is “hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work. It is also hereby determined that Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, cannot be applied to these agencies and agency subdivisions in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations.” No mention of that […] The post NASA Is...| TrumpSpace Archives - 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: Last week there was a NASA JPL town hall. The ongoing effort to unionize JPL was a topic of discussion. Shortly after that an anti-union email was sent by management to all employees. Here is the JPL Workers United website: https://jplworkersunited.org The post Is JPL Anti-Union? appeared first on NASA Watch.| Activism Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: This is the internal RIF planning chart circulating within NASA the Human Health and Performance Contract community. It specifically relates to contractor employees – but it mirrors plans being developed in other parts of the agency. Note that this is being explicitly done via “NASA Directive: Offices, Programs, and Projects to align with the FY26 Presidential Budget Request of $18.8B” – and not due to any budget agreed […] The post Insight Into NASA’s Contractor R...| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Today, Karen Feldstein, associate administrator for international and interagency relations, announced she is leaving the agency after more than 30 years of distinguished public service| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: I posted a picture the other day. It was sent to me by 3 people with no known/cited source. So I cropped it and put NASAWatch.com on it so there’d be some traceability and show that it was not A.I. generated. I thought it was rather poignant – as have thousands of people who have seen it. Today I discovered via a nastygram on LinkedIn that the source […] The post Pardon My Rant appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - 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. The post You Can Leave NASA But NASA Never Leaves You appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: WARN notices were sent to some Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contract (HSFTIC) employees. Integrated Mission Operations Contract (IMOC) folks received generic 60 day WARN notices last week and there will be individual layoff notices sent out at the beginning of September to the specific folks who are being laid off. This is all being done according to the President’s Budget Request (PBR) for FY 2026 – even […] The post NASA Contractor Layoff Update appeared fi...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s Update: I will been CNN at 6:37 pm EDT to talk about Jim Lovell. Keith’s note: I met Jim Lovell a bunch of times. He was such a nice guy. One time we were both on MSNBC and the moderator asked us about the whole ‘spending money in space – problems on Earth’ thing. I said “Hey Jim – did you ever see a 7-11 or a gas station […] The post Jim Lovell appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Multiple sources have mentioned ongoing discussion at NASA HQ, NASA Goddard, and NASA Wallops that consider the option of moving toward a Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) model for the future of Wallops. The post Is NASA Wallops Going GOCO? appeared first on NASA Watch.| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
This is really starting to get petty Sean and Brian| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: I don’t want to freak people out, but there is a question that has been troubling me. A lot of media focus has been on departing NASA civil servants (which sucks) but there may be massive contractor employee layoffs as well (which equally sucks). If things stay on the path that they seem to be on something needs to break soon. The post Heads Up Contractor Employees: WARN Act appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: This memo was just sent out to NASA SMD employees (and others). It opens with “To ensure the continued safety of our workforce and compliance with security measures, the NASA Headquarters Protective Services Office will be reinstating random searches and inspections of individuals, belongings, and vehicles…” A day or so after NASA scared 4,000+ civil servants out of their jobs (and the contractor count is still TBD), the […] The post Random Employee Searches To Resume ...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Kevin Coggins (LinkedIn), the current AA for NASA SCaN, who was trying to be noticed as a possible administrator nominee, is supposedly going to be the next Associate Administrator of NASA. Vanessa Wyche is the Acting Associate Administrator so I guess she goes back to JSC where Stephen Koerner is Acting Director. With Coggins moving up that means he’ll be with other Florida natives – de facto NASA […] The post Another Florida Man On NASA’s 9th Floor? appeared first on...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
NASA’s Deferred Resignation Program| NASA Watch
NASA Associate Administrators & Center Directors are told by the Acting Administrator to get more people to quit.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: this went out to everyone at NASA. You’d think that a former TV guy could read the room a little better i.e. “deeply personal and often difficult decisions”. — “Dear Team, Thank you to all who took the time to thoughtfully consider NASA’s voluntary resignation programs. I know these are deeply personal and often difficult decisions. To those who have chosen to depart, I want to express my […] The post Sean Duffy: Embrace The Challenge 2.0 appeared first on NASA W...| Administrator Updates Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Vanessa Wyche Acting NASA Associate Administrator just sent this out: “NASA Team Members, Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced that she will leave NASA, effective Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard since April 2023, Makenzie also was responsible for guiding the direction and management of multiple other NASA field installations including Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Katherine Johnson […]...| Personnel News Archives - NASA Watch
Apparently NASA Interim AdministratorSean Duffy was actually onsite at NASA HQ briefly last Friday.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: according to this Reuters article: “NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes speaking at the same town hall, agreed, saying it would “probably be considered irresponsible” to wait for the congressional budget process. The letter added that Hughes recently ordered NASA science programs targeted for cancellation in Trump’s budget request to stop issuing press releases celebrating new scientific results and achievements.” In addition, senior staff at recent meetings at […] Th...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: There is a new, rather detailed and annotated “Statement of Solidarity and Support” out called “The NASA Voyager Declaration“ regarding the current state of affairs at NASA. It is modeled after similar efforts by employees at EPA, NIH, and elsewhere within the Federal government. It opens with: “Dear Interim Administrator Duffy, In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies […] The post The NASA Voyage...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Explore new career preparedness and development offerings| 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 […] The post Part Time NASA Administrator Update appeared first on NASA Wa...| Budget Archives - NASA Watch
Things are starting to look darker at NASA.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: On 1 July 2025 Mark Sykes, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, published an op ed titled “Taking Action Against Historical Censorship by USRA” which I reprinted here on NASAWatch. UPDATE: Mark Sykes has posted a response to USRA’s critique of his original OpEd. The post Update On USRA/LPI/LPSC Diversity Censoring appeared first on NASA Watch.| Activism Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Mike Witt, NASA’s Senior Agency Information Security Officer (SAISO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Cybersecurity and Privacy is leaving the agency shortly. Best wishes, Mike. The post Mike Witt Is Leaving NASA appeared first on NASA Watch.| IT/Web Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: In January I noted that NASA had taken the NASA Online Directives Information System (NODIS) offline – so I posted an archive version of what was there before they fiddled with it (see: Someone Is Trying to Erase NASA’s Directives. Oops. We Have Them All). NODIS is now back online – but with lots of changes in according to White House Executive Orders. Well, the DOGE folks aren’t […] The post Detailed Look At Changes to NASA’s NODIS appeared first on NASA Watch.| IT/Web Archives - NASA Watch
Meta has suspended the Facebook NASAWatch page - again.| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Moments ago I spoke with CNN about NASA’s budget, science, layoffs, competition with China and newly appointed “interim” NASA Administrator DOT Secretary Sean Duffy. [Audio] The post NASAWatch On CNN: Budget, Layoffs, Science, & Sean Duffy appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
As of today the current number of NASA civil servants who are departing| NASA Watch
The President only found out about this “prior associations” issue| NASA Watch
Only NASA employees can listen it. I hope someone thinks to record the audio and post it somewhere ;-)| NASA Watch
Up until last year NASA always made mention of Juneteenth and what it represents to NASA and to our nation.| NASA Watch
Jaclyn (Jackie) Jester has been selected as NASA's deputy chief of staff| NASA Watch
In what will soon become commonplace another valuable and valued employee is leaving NASA| NASA Watch
It’s hard to believe it’s time to say goodbye after 25 years at NASA| NASA Watch
As we approach Independence Day| NASA Watch
According to "The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down" in The| 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
As of 4:07 pm EDT has 1,604 people taking voluntary separation| NASA Watch
Janet Petro's Embrace The Challenge| NASA Watch
I get this on my watch multiple times a day. My heart sinks each time| NASA Watch
This internal email was sent to NASA Employees by the new NASA Chief of staff Brian Hughes| NASA Watch
I have heard from 6 senior people today that RIFs at NASA are openly discussed - now - as a distinct possibility| NASA Watch
I witnessed some utterly insane, idiotic, and foolish nonsense at NASA today - some in full view - a lot of it behind the scenes.| NASA Watch
this weekly 'Embrace The Challenge Update'| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: this went out to NASA employees today. You can jump or risk being pushed out of the airlock. Your choice. As always, Embrace the Challenge: “NASA has been preparing for a significant organizational realignment and restructuring under its Workforce Optimization Plan, which will build a leaner, more agile organization – one that streamlines management layers, capitalizes on efficiencies, and ensures every part of NASA is contributing directly to […]| NASA Watch
Keith’s Note: on this date 1 April 1996, NASA (RIF) Watch was born with this posting. No kidding. “Editor’s note: From a well-placed source at NASA HQ who participated in this meeting: Mal Peterson (NASA HQ Comptroller’s Office) personally briefed NASA program managers (Centers and HQ) yesterday (27 March) and gave instructions for planning and implementing a RIF by Summer 1997, the reduction to be completed by October 1998, to […] The post NASAWatch Is 29 appeared first on NASA Watch.| News Archives - NASA Watch
in addition to a note on NASA GSFC SED Directorate's Christa Peters-Lidard retirement there is a section in this note about upcoming departures| NASA Watch
This week Janet (or which ever of her handlers writes these things)| NASA Watch
This email was sent to NASA Goddard employees on 12 June 2025| 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
Keith’s note: Looks like @NASA has a new Chief of Staff: Brian Hughes from Jacksonville, FL. LinkedIn profile – @BrianHughes47 and @BrianHughes| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: It looks like the NASAPRS “NASA Task Book is down for maintenance” according to its website at https://taskbook.nasaprs.com/. It has been offline since last week. Have a look at these two papers I found rather quickly that use a forbidden DEIA word. I’ll bet they are not there when this resource comes back online. I have an archive online here at Astrobiology.com The post The NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List Is Offline appeared first on NASA Watch.| Space Life Science Archives - NASA Watch
Janet Petro NASA Update - May 1, 2025| NASA Watch
The DEI Erasure Squad has been busy.| NASA Watch
Keith's note: according to NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy at Science| NASA Watch
Janet Petro NASA Update – NASA Update - April 18, 2025| NASA Watch
According to this 2021 ENR article, Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro| NASA Watch
there has been a swarm of stories of late about NASA abandoning the whole "first woman and first person of color" tag line| NASA Watch
WRT Janet Petro's update today - she included a comment (about her standard update closing| NASA Watch
Keith's note: the following was sent to NASA Employees today:| NASA Watch
