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Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by Victerius » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

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A phenomenon I've noticed is that the most important person in an organization tends to always make the coolest announcements. This applies equally to the government and to corporations.

Dear presidents, governors, and CEOs, please let lower level employees make the cool announcements.

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by phailhaus » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:35 PM UTC

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Way more people will pay attention to the President announcing it than "so-and-so from NASA". Though I too hope he passes it over to the team to explain the findings.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

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Way more people will pay attention to the President announcing it than "so-and-so from NASA". Though I too hope he passes it over to the team to explain the findings.

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Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by rob74 » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

If this "day 2" does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you're not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it "day" and not "phase"? Does "phase" have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too "scientific"?

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Post by flyingbarron » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #14

If this "day 2" does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you're not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it "day" and not "phase"? Does "phase" have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too "scientific"?

I honestly don't know.

Just to clarify, the term "Day-2" isn't from NASA, it's a universal engineering term - which mostly happens on Earth ;)

I'm guessing it's just a planning term - like D-Day :shrugs:

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Post by krallja » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

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Nixon called Neil and Buzz on the moon. Reagan sent a message of good wishes to STS-1 (he was recovering from an assassination attempt). Biden gets to present the government’s telescope pix. It’s one of the honors of being the President.

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by JacobThreeThree » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC

flyingbarron wrote: post #15

rob74 wrote: post #14

If this "day 2" does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you're not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it "day" and not "phase"? Does "phase" have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too "scientific"?

I honestly don't know. Just to clarify, the term "Day-2" isn't from NASA, it's a universal engineering term - which mostly happens on Earth ;) I'm guessing it's just a planning term - like D-Day :shrugs:

I see Day-0, Day-1, Day-2 etc. used in the context of business planning quite frequently.

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by zamadatix » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 3:07 PM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #14

If this "day 2" does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you're not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it "day" and not "phase"? Does "phase" have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too "scientific"?

I think the terms day 0/1/2 have caught on because they are constant across projects regardless how lacking or overboard the phase planning was. I.e. the project may or may not have much more detailed actual phases and those phases may or may not be obvious to someone without a background in the project but anyone can understand where the project is at without first ingesting the entire project plan.

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by dylan604 » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

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I think it emphasizes the importance of the results - it's for everyone, not just scientific types. Back in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson "expressed interest" in the first close-up pictures NASA got from the Moon on Ranger 7. The freshly developed images were loaded onto a plane and the President got a private briefing with the head of NASA on the very same day. (sorry, I don't think I can link the picture) https://…

>President got a private briefing with the head of NASA

head of NASA aka the Vice President. maybe you meant the NASA administrator?

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Post by 1970-01-01 » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

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No. Biden does not take credit for the images and will present them as decades of international effort. The former President would claim he took the images all by himself.