Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
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Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
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Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#2Well deserved.
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#3Congrats to the team that built JWST!
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#4Super well deserved. Incredible accomplishment of humankind.
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#5Thanks to the everyone involved, you did a great job!
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#6Very well deserved. I thought the Snoopy award was the top award but apparently not. My grandfather is in the NASA hall of fame for the Apollo mission and was awarded a Snoopy. He was also part of Challenger but that's another story.
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#7Very well deserved. I thought the Snoopy award was the top award but apparently not. My grandfather is in the NASA hall of fame for the Apollo mission and was awarded a Snoopy. He was also part of Challenger but that's another story.
If NASA is anything like CDC, most awards are reserved for federal employees. Very rare for contractors (firms or individuals) to receive awards.
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#8One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget. Nearly criminal, in fact. Billions of dollars wasted and countless valuable missions that had to be sacrificed.
The team (I think under new management) eventually delivered a successful launch, so no one will remember.
I do think the final team who got it turned around and actually launched absolutely do deserve credit, I don’t want to deny that at all. But the opportunity cost was absolutely astounding.
(Will add sources)
EDIT: this 2018 article in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/nasa-jam...
Remember it was supposed to launch in 2007 for just $500 million when conceived and 2010 and $1 billion (respectively) when approved.
Didn’t launch until the tail end of 2021 for $10 billion!
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#9Very well deserved. I thought the Snoopy award was the top award but apparently not. My grandfather is in the NASA hall of fame for the Apollo mission and was awarded a Snoopy. He was also part of Challenger but that's another story.
If NASA is anything like CDC, most awards are reserved for federal employees. Very rare for contractors (firms or individuals) to receive awards.
It's next to impossible in many agencies and departments. The reason given is that they are not allowed to show favoritism or clear support/preference to one given contracting company, and they say an award to a contractor would do that.
Re: Northrop Grumman Employees Receive NASA’s Highest Honors for Building the JWST
#10I know it's stupid, and at the time political, but I keep my certificate that came with my NASA award. As a kid who always wanted to be an astronaut, helping the space program enough that they give you a postit note that says "thank you" in government speak is still my highest honor.