Miles Gray

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• Commented on NOAA Employees Have More Freedom to Speak Than NASA Employees

  It was a JSC manager that gave the number....

• Commented on NOAA Employees Have More Freedom to Speak Than NASA Employees

  I think you are free to say whatever you want. This applies equally to speaking to the outside community and speaking inside the agency. But, what happens, as in the case of Clay Anderson http://spaceref.net/mt-search.cgi?search=anderson+clay&IncludeBlogs=14&limit=20 is they will ostracize you...

• Commented on Exploration Roadmap Materials Online

  If you've been following this for the last few years, its obvious that about the time Shuttle flew for the last time, and people on the blogs, on NASAWatch, and people like Mike Leinbach were crying about a lack of...

• Commented on Space Policy: Where Next?

  You are right of course; Marcia painted an excellent picture of the political situation. What manned space program management needs to come to grips with is how to evolve and grow capabilities without big new budgets and programs. ISS elements...

• Commented on Space Policy: Where Next?

  Marcia did a good job of describing how we got to where we are, but apparently even she does not know where we are going....

• Commented on The Long Confusing Path Toward Space Station Utilization

  I suspect the one reason CASIS was selected was because Obama told Bolden to make sure the jobs went to Florida. USRA did this job in the past? I thought the function was a new one. If anyone had done...

• Commented on NASA Hands Out Hand Sterilizers at an Education Conference.

  Let the National Institutes for Health or Center for Disease Control pay for these. NASA's limited funds should go to aerospace hardware and education....

• Commented on Mike Leinbach Is Leaving NASA

  Mike was one of the great ones. Hopefully he can continue to contribute from his new position....

• Commented on Clay Anderson: Too Honest for NASA?

  You guys have made it very clear what things you think need to be done. I keep asking HOW does one make these things happen?, and you keep giving me more WHAT. Why do you keep ignoring the question of...

• Commented on Clay Anderson: Too Honest for NASA?

  Most positive thing I've heard in years. I hope NASA can survive and that they clean the cronies that are the NASA management today out and get us back on track. We cannot take the current lack of leadership and...

• Commented on What Would Wernher Do? What DID He Do?

  There were a lot of differences between NASA in the 1960s and NASA today. In the 1960s there was only a single Manned Spacecraft Center. It grew from the task group in Langley. Those 4 spacecraft all were developed by...

• Commented on What Would Wernher Do? What DID He Do?

  I think you are wrong about no vehicle ever having been lost because of insufficient static load factors. After early failures of the Mercury-Atlas, the spacecraft adapter and the mating ring both required significant modification and upgrade. I've not reviewed...

• Commented on What Would Wernher Do? What DID He Do?

  Actually, once von Braun found out he had been promoted up and out and had no technical role within NASA any longer, he did leave NASA and went to work for Fairchild, where he also served more a token door...

• Commented on What Would Wernher Do? What DID He Do?

  While von Braun was said to be a great manager and leader, many of the NASA veterans would not work for him because of his NAZI past. In the 1960s there was not a lot of overlap of function. The...

• Commented on SLS: Its All About Jobs, Mr. President

  The idea of the SLS, especially as it is initially based mainly on Shuttle ET and SRBs, made much more sense 3 or 4 years ago before the workforces at Michoud, KSC and other locations was decimated. Other than a...

• Commented on An Amazing NASA Photo You Won't See on NASA.gov (Update)

  So why berate and go after a very low level GS trying to do good in a world of high and mighty GS-15 and SES bureaucrats who don't do their jobs? Yes you are right. In large measure Exploration died...

• Commented on An Amazing NASA Photo You Won't See on NASA.gov (Update)

  I see it differently than you Keith. I give credit to Beth for finding and posting the picture. While you, Keith, berate her, Fact is she seems to be showing up a lot of other people at NASA who get...

• Commented on HEOMD Management Update

  Having worked with Leshin and Braun, you might be right. Both of them came with high hopes of accomplishing big things, and with NASA moving as it is today, it will accomplish little if anything....

• Commented on Houston Takes Another Shot at New York Over Shuttle Exhibit

  I agree that it is disgraceful that the selection process wound up with the Orbiter in this situation. First they should not have shut down the program with the current precarious situation of US human space flight. It would have...

• Commented on Bolden: SLS WiIl be "Disciplined"

  High school students are already building hardware for the space station: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/preparingtravel/hunch.html As far as using students for design, the DOD pays big dollars especially to big name engineering schools for their design support. NASA's grants usually are not as...

• Commented on Doug Cooke's Farewell Note

  Doug did OK for himself, and was always there at the beginnings of the programs. martijn, you probably need to read a history book or two to see how NASA got to where it is, and you cannot blame the...

• Commented on Fuel Depots and Congress

  The depot question is a good one. It is part of a bigger issue and that issue is that there is no plan, How can you decide on SLS boosters or MPCV capsules or fuel depots, or atomic propulsion systems,...

• Commented on ISS U.S. National Laboratory: Where is the CASIS Website?

  Did the organization exist a month ago? If not then NASA must not have been too concerned about promoting science on ISS....

• Commented on NASA Exploration Ideas - With Added China Bashing (Update)

  What I see in Thomas's presentation is some heartfelt and useful soul-searching about the shape NASA is in and how it needs some fixing, and I see some of the rudimentary concepts that, organized, could form the basis of a...

• Commented on Hutchison/Nelson: Undermining America's Manned Space Program

  The case that should be made is that the nation needs a new, revitalized, cost effective space transportation system in the same way that it needs new highways, new railroads, new airport terminals and air traffic control system, and a...

• Commented on Houston Still Simmers over Shuttle Snub

  "Houston did not finish in 5th place in a four horse race. More like 7th or 8th." Its very easy to get whatever result you want to see if you skew the selection criteria and keep changing it until you...

• Commented on NASA Combines ESMD with SOMD to Create HEO

  "There had never been a separate exploration directorate." There had also never previously been a directorate focused solely on operations. In all prior eras, operations was a relatively small subset of the entire human space flight organization and functions....

• Commented on NASA Combines ESMD with SOMD to Create HEO

  Actually, EMD and SOMD was a false dichotomy at least based on earlier eras. SOMD, formerly Code M, was the human space flight program until the operations takeover was seen as complete about 5-6 years ago. Then the ops people...

• Commented on Video: The Future of NASA with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  This is great but Tyson is talking to the wind. Nobody is listening. The people charged with the future of the space program, our illustrious management, did not complain at all over the last three years; they apparently wanted exactly...

• Commented on Being Clear As To Who Actually Cancelled The Shuttle

  It is not nearly as clear cut as some make it out who should take responsibility for the Shuttle's termination. First, the Columbia accident investigation board called for considering termination of the Shuttle unless the system was recertified. The system...