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You skipped a word. "NASA Force: Technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery".
NASA force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery?
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We had a working system. It was the current administration that slashed NASA's budget and castrated the JPL aerospace employment pipeline. NASA's talent shortage is a self-inflicted wound. Panic-firing and panic-reemploying your workforce every <4 years is not a sustainable rate of attrition for professional, research-oriented culture.
It's funny to me how much this administration gets the blame for everything. NASA would had been widely regarded as schlerotic and archaic before these most recent budget cuts. Filled with beaurocrats who didn't even know what their job was. But, the budget gets cut under Trump and now the rot in the organization is forgotten. I don't think they should have their budget cut but they weren't a great agency before and…
> they weren't a great agency before and were still declining.
"Were"? They are. You're again giving premature credit to a policy that hasn't worked yet and ostensibly throttled NASA's capabilities. This is this administration's problem as much as it was Biden's, Trump 1's, and Obama's. You don't have to come in here with a chip on your shoulder just because I'm blaming the current iteration of the disaster.
Two things: - I like the rolling Moon animation very much. - This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again. I guess it's also a neat kind of try-before-you-buy for both sides. NASA is prestigious and one of the very few places one could do purely…
>> budget squeeze >> will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again 2026 budget - 24.4 billion 2025 budget - 24.8 billion 2024 budget - 25.3 billion 2023 budget - 25.3 billion 2022 budget - 24.0 billion 2021 budget - 23.2 billion 2020 budget - 22.6 billion 2019 budget - 21.5 billion 2018 budget - 20.7 billion 2017 budget - 19.6 billion 2016 budget - 19.2 billion What part of these nu…
"Build a website - it's almost like you got the job done already" - Someone in the White House OEOB The new National Design Studio that replaced the USDS does not seem to be capable of building a website that is accessible, performant, and not overly bombastic / hyperbolic. Completely unreadable. Animation fails at the top, on a decently provisioned Mac laptop with 16GB of RAM. Either way - it's unfortunate that the…
"Build a website - it's almost like you got the job done already" - Someone in the White House OEOB The new National Design Studio that replaced the USDS does not seem to be capable of building a website that is accessible, performant, and not overly bombastic / hyperbolic. Completely unreadable. Animation fails at the top, on a decently provisioned Mac laptop with 16GB of RAM. Either way - it's unfortunate that the…
The copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better >technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them, and your contributions move from concept to operation. For a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The…
I love that NASA is hiring, I worry this is because NASA doesn't have funding.
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It's funny to me how much this administration gets the blame for everything. NASA would had been widely regarded as schlerotic and archaic before these most recent budget cuts. Filled with beaurocrats who didn't even know what their job was. But, the budget gets cut under Trump and now the rot in the organization is forgotten. I don't think they should have their budget cut but they weren't a great agency before and…
It's funny to me how quickly people leap in front of the train to pretend like this fixes everything. NASA still has an anemic culture, and opening the door to interns is not a replacement for their failing talent acquisition. Budget cuts, revoked contracts and fired personnel will not stimulate positive change either. > they weren't a great agency before and were still declining. "Were"? They are. You're again givin…
I didn't assert otherwise. In fact, I clearly stayed that I _hoped_ this move would help. The status quo certainly wasn't working and I could see a way for this move to be helpful.
I'm not saying it's a great idea and it'll for sure work but, I guess, fuck me for trying to be optimistic about a decision made by this administration...