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• Commented on Morpheus Lander Tests Today (Update)

  How is it that a decision made by the Morpheus Project to test in extremely dry conditions, without having assessed all of the risks, and without proper site preparations, is becoming the fault of the Houston Fire Department? And why...

• Commented on Killing Constellation at Birth

  Constellation is not universally hated. What is hated is the incompetent management culture that grew stronger under Griffin, and continues to thrive under Bolden/Garver. This culture has pounded out the capable, and destroyed any chance of NASA’s human space flight...

• Commented on JSC Begins Constellation Changes

  One of the qualities of a leader is dedication. "Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at" hand. Another quality of a leader is humility". Leaders with humility recognize that they are no better...

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Removed From CxP Management

  "You care to comment on Obama's qualifications to lead one of the most powerful countries in the history of the world? Tell me about that. How about Ms. Clinton? Being first lady makes you qualified to be a Senator for...

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Removed From CxP Management

  "Even worse, those who do present solid engineering are kind of squeezed out because they might make others "look bad". After the accident it got even worse. The Return to Flight "clique" could rival some college sororities in terms of...

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Removed From CxP Management

  There are a lot of ways to fire someone. Let's hope future firings aren't so ugly that we hear about them in a congressional hearing, and see them on NASAWatch, before those of us in the Program get the word....

• Commented on Media Bias in Shuttle Coverage?

  It is probably a good thing that the American public is too preoccupied recouping their retirement losses, finding jobs, paying their mortgages, and burying their young soldiers to care much about NASA. If they were paying attention they would be...

• Commented on Using ISS Needs To Extend Shuttle - Update

  Wayne Hale is right. Unless the US has lots of money to burn...which by the way we are still recovering from the worst recession in the history of the US...we can't revive the Shuttle. The money is just not there....

• Commented on Bolden: "Jeff does exactly what I ask him to do"

  I hope you are right. I hope Bolden is getting ready to clean house. JSC has turned into a rouge center where senior managers ride roughshod over anybody or anything that get in their lane. Many have aligned with the...

• Commented on NASA Balloon Crashes On Liftoff

  You have to be impressed with a safety person who would put cars and people downwind of a tethered balloon....

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Openly Defies White House Policy

  Hanley has been instructed to continue POR execution for the remainder of the fiscal year, and if Congress puts NASA under another continuing resolution he will be executing the program of record into next fiscal year. In addition, he's got...

• Commented on Well, There Seems To Be A Compromise After All

  Keith; You were pretty far off the mark in your previous post, which got a lot of people's hopes up. It seems some of your sources have their own agendas. I really don't consider this a compromise, since Bolden and...

• Commented on New Roles for NASA Centers

  This plan makes more sense than the plan laid out a few days ago on this website. It gives technical jobs to Ohio and California, where they are desperately needed, and KSC gets to use much of their manpower to...

• Commented on Is A Human Space Flight Compromise Emerging?

  "This is the consensus that seems to forming in and among NASA, OSTP, and NSC..." Keith; Did someone tell you this was the consensus, or did you actually talk to a consensus of senior managers at each of these agencies?...

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  I'm not sure this matters anymore, but surely someone did a cost benefit analysis to compare the cost of updating these systems versus building new systems. If these are flight systems, they weren't cheap, and to throw out the baby...

• Commented on Making NASA "Open"

  I agree with David. If they really want to know what we want, their are plenty of existing commercial websites that collect this information without tracking us down to our building and room number. One thing I would like to...

• Commented on Show Us The Money

  Reality hurts, but Garver is right. Unless someone dumps a pile of money on NASA, and can accept the inevitable 2-year gap, it is too late to extend Shuttle. The decision to end Shuttle was made over six years ago,...

• Commented on Plan B For Outer Space

  This is news? All of the other Centers have had working tiger teams since the budget was announced (I'm pretty sure none of them asked the Administrator's permission). It is pretty sad when a grown man has to ask mom...

• Commented on Public-private Partnership Honeymoon Coming?

  Possum; I wholeheartedly agree. If anyone took the time to look at the resumes of those we have selected as leaders in project management, IT management, and Financial Management we would see how embedded cronyism has become in the NASA...

• Commented on GAO - NASA's Challenges Ahead

  Possum; I whole-heartedly agree. If anyone took the time to look at the resumes of those we have selected as leaders in project management, IT management, and Financial Management we would see how imbedded cronyism has become in the NASA...

• Commented on You Know You Messaging Plan Is Not Working When ...

  The loss of human space flight is too complicated to blame on any one individual. Many are at fault (Obama, Bush, Griffin, O’Keefe, Dittemore, Hanley, Shannon, etc.). But if I had to pick the moment when everything started to go...

• Commented on HQ Staff Gets Budget Numbers

  Frank...if you know what the budget numbers are, we would appreciate it if you would share them. Most of us think any increase in the budget would go to commercial space. If it does, let’s hope NASA remembers to include...

• Commented on HQ Staff Gets Budget Numbers

  Thank you for keeping us up to date Keith. You are our best source for information regarding NASA’s future. Interestingly, Mr. Coats sent out this email just after 4pm CST. One would surmise he already knew the bad new, but...

• Commented on Waiting for The Jury To Return a Verdict

  Here at NASA no one believes the glim sliver of hope being projected by NASA management. While Freedom knew there would eventually be enough work to employ the individuals who sat idle for a few months awaiting a redesign, Constellation...

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  While sad, as an American tax payer I'm reluctant to want to put any more money in the hands of any of NASA's senior manned space flight managers. They played the political game and lost. In the meantime, they have...

• Commented on Bolden on Risk: Quit Treating American Citizens "As if They are Children"

  Yes, this is a great idea. In order to implement it Bolden needs competent Directors and leaders at his Centers, which he does not have. Implementing this idea without fixing the fundamental problems in the Agency is accepting more risk...