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View Comments"> View Comments NASA OIG: NASA's Management Of The Mobile Launcher 2 Contract"The ML-2's substantial cost increases and schedule delays can be attributed primarily to Bechtel's poor performance on the contract, with more than 70 percent ($421.1 million) of the contract's cost increases and over 1.5 years of delays related to its performance. For example, Bechtel underestimated the ML-2 project's scope and complexity, experienced ML-2 weight management challenges, and experienced staffing turnover and retention issues. Additionally, Bechtel's lack of a certified EVMS since inception of the ML-2 contract--a contractually required tool for measuring and assessing project performance--has limited NASA's insight into the project's cost and schedule issues. Bechtel's performance notwithstanding, NASA's management practices contributed to the project's cost increases and schedule delays. NASA awarded the ML-2 contract while the Exploration Upper Stage--the primary reason NASA needed a second mobile launcher--lacked final requirements, impacting the ML-2 design. With respect to contract management, while NASA withheld award fees for a 6-month performance period in spring 2021 due to Bechtel's poor performance, the Agency did not continue this practice despite the contractor's continued poor performance in the subsequent award period. Therefore, we question nearly $3 million in award fees NASA awarded to Bechtel for this period." Keith's note: So ... NASA awarded this contract, did not give Bechtel all the information it actually needed tp do the work, then let work proceed, dinged Bechtel on an award fee payment, but otherwise just let things go ahead without any attempt to halt work, re-bid, etc. NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana was Center Director at KSC from 2008 until 2021 throughout much of this contract. NASA Administrator Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL Ret.) fought for this work at KSC while a U.S. Senator. Nelson brought Cabana up to DC where he oversaw much of the agency including work being done on Artemis. This contract was awarded in 2019 when Cabana was running KSC and Kathy Lueders was running HEOMD. While Bechtel is certainly to blame for much of this mess - so is NASA - and the mismanagement of this contract starts at the very top of the agency inside the glass doors on the 9th floor. Categories: Artemis, Commercialization NASA Is Going To Study Those UAP/UFO Things By Keith Cowing on June 9, 2022 10:52 AM. View Comments"> View Comments NASA to Discuss New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Today, NASA"NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT today - Thursday, June 9 - to discuss a new study team the agency is commissioning to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). The purpose of the study is to examine UAPs - observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena - from a scientific perspective."NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, NASA"NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) - that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena - from a scientific perspective. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward." Categories: News Coming Attraction: NASA OIG Report On That SLS Transporter Thing By Keith Cowing on June 8, 2022 10:25 AM. View Comments"> View Comments You saw Nelson's reaction to this issue recently. This is utterly indefensible & is totally on #NASA regardless of how contractors screwed up. Oh yes its at @NASAKennedy in FL where @SenBillNelson is from and where @Astro_CabanaBo ran the show for many years. Tick tock. #Artemis https://t.co/Fqs0QdwD3d— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 8, 2022 Categories: Artemis France Signs The Artemis Accords By Keith Cowing on June 7, 2022 11:49 PM. View Comments"> View Comments Keith's note: Alas, NASA PAO only told hand-picked media about this NASA-CNES event - because that is how NASA rolls these days. Let's see if any video surfaces on NASA TV. And of course we know that NASA OIIR's website won't mention it since they just don't care.Oh yes, look at the graphic used in this official NASA Tweet. Notice how they spell "New Zealand" ... Update: they deleted the tweet (after we took note) and figured out how to spell New Zealand. This is the earlier version of their graphic. Categories: Artemis Space Travel Is Infectious By Keith Cowing on June 7, 2022 8:48 PM. View Comments"> View Comments Space travel is infectious. Let's do more of it. A lot more.ICYMI @katvoltage @space_rach @SpaceHumanity @dylan @blueorigin #NS21H/T Leuken Iluminación @LEUKEN_mexico https://t.co/h3GSTXLa85— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 8, 2022 Categories: Commercialization, Culture CASIS Is Still Broken And No One Really Cares By Keith Cowing on June 7, 2022 12:20 PM. View Comments"> View Comments GAO: International Space Station: Opportunities Exist to Improve Communication with National Laboratory Users"CASIS officials have not obtained input from the advisory committee on how to allocate laboratory resources, even though the committee is chartered to advise CASIS on resource utilization. CASIS officials stated they have not obtained this input for several reasons, including that the committee is unlikely to provide a consensus perspective. However, a lack of consensus does not preclude communication. Diverse input could enhance CASIS's understanding of risks and opportunities across the laboratory portfolio.Additionally, CASIS has not routinely provided the advisory committee information about past and planned resource allocations, including visibility into the flight queue for projects waiting to travel to the International Space Station. The chairs of the advisory committee and its five subcommittees told GAO they could more effectively advise CASIS if they had more information about past resource allocations. These members also stated that greater transparency into planned allocations would be valuable for users conducting time-sensitive research--such as biological science research involving cell and tissue samples. CASIS officials said they have not routinely provided the committee this information because the resource allocation process is complex and fluid. However, NASA and CASIS officials acknowledged laboratory users would benefit from improved visibility into the resource allocation process." Keith's note: I spent a lot of time looking into CASIS as you may recall. After more than a decade it is still broken. NASA never wanted it and only pays attention to CASIS when Congress or NASA HQ or GAO points out glaring issues. This time CASIS openly admits that it really does not care what its own advisory panel does. Then they all write a report, reshuffle management - and eject the good employees, and then this all disappears back into the NASA mis-managerial mist again. CASIS is located in Florida so NASA Administrator Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL Ret.) is not going to be too tough on them. The $15 million CASIS gets from NASA every year is mandated by Congress - no matter how good or bad they do their job. That is unlikely to change any time soon. The space station could be so much more than it is - if NASA cared enough about it, that is. Categories: Commercialization, ISS News New JPL Director Faces Old JPL Directors' Cost Issues By Keith Cowing on June 6, 2022 1:27 PM. View Comments"> View Comments New director of NASA's storied Jet Propulsion Lab takes on ballooning mission costs , Science"Q: JPL has an incredible record of success in robotic missions. But you've had a lot of cost overruns with the Mars rovers, and we're seeing it again with Europa Clipper, which will now cost an estimated $5 billion. What steps can JPL and other centers take to stop getting surprised by cost increases?A: You're raising an issue that is high on my agenda here. Technical performance at JPL--amazing. Cost and schedule performance, especially on cost, we have not done as well. What's behind that? Of course, the answer is, it's complicated. It can be hard to understand and write down early on all the requirements that drive cost. How do we get better at that and start to systematically look at where we are missing? I want people to know that I take it seriously, because we're spending American taxpayer dollars here. And also, there's a lot of good science to do and when missions don't meet their cost milestones, that means something else probably is getting delayed because as far as I know, there are not infinite resources." Categories: Budget NASAWatch On CGTN: Shenzhou-14 Mission To Tiangong By Keith Cowing on June 5, 2022 5:12 PM. View Comments"> View Comments 4 June prelaunchKeith Cowing · NASAWatch on CGTN: Shenzhou 14 Launch to Tiangong Space Station5 June post dockingKeith Cowing · NASAWatch on CGTN; Shenzhou-14 Docks With Tiangong Categories: China, ISS News Bill Nelson's Pride Month Tweet By Keith Cowing on June 1, 2022 8:31 PM. View Comments"> View Comments Keith's note: Oddly this tweet - well intentioned as it was - from NASA Administrator Nelson about inclusion and diversity at NASA during Pride Month is limited in terms of who can reply. Note that is says: "Who can reply? People @SenBillNelson follows or mentioned can reply" Not the best way to be inclusive. Just sayin'.#PrideMonth is both a personal celebration of self-discovery and dignity and a shared celebration of visibility and equality. Thank you to @NASA's LGBTQ+ employees who work hard every day to make progress on our goals and missions. Happy Pride! pic.twitter.com/D6F3mdAn0d— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 1, 2022 Categories: Personnel News Tweeting From Russia For Rogozin Is Not Easy By Keith Cowing on June 1, 2022 8:15 PM. View Comments"> View Comments Apparently @Rogozin has to go through a special process to use Twitter given that it is blocked for Russians thus requiring work arounds. pic.twitter.com/7SQTXyD06w— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 2, 2022 Categories: Russia NASA Picks Two Space Suit Contractors By Keith Cowing on June 1, 2022 2:10 PM. View Comments"> View Comments NASA Partners with Industry for New Spacewalking, Moonwalking Services"NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars."Spacesuits aboard station declared a "no-go" pending analysis of recent helmet water leak, CBS"The aging shuttle-era spacesuits aboard the International Space Station have been declared "no-go" for operational, normally planned spacewalks, pending analysis to determine what led to excess water getting into an astronaut's helmet during a March excursion, officials confirmed Tuesday." Keith's note: The NASA press release says total contract value is $3.5B if all of the contract options are eventually exercised but there are no details on how NASA funding is accomplished or the value of these two individual contracts. Oh yes - there is no mention of how these suits will help NASA deal with current suit issues on ISS right now. The earliest that these suits might be tested is apparently in the 2025 timeframe according to Axiom and Collins - maybe. As to whether they will be ready for an actual lunar mission i.e. Artemis 3 - that's anyone's guess since no one knows exactly when that flight will happen.NASA declined to answer the "when" question with regard to spacesuit testing. Both companies suggest the 2025 time frame but provided no other detail. NASA would only say "mid-2020s" for when these spacesuits will be in use. When asked about water in helmets of current ISS EVA suits the NASA rep only says that they are studying it.When asked what the value of each contract the NASA person said that it is going to be published in the source selection documents in late June. So .. one has to assume that NASA still does not know - otherwise they'd tell us, right?Spacesuit companies were asked how much they've invested already. Axiom Space would not answer other than to say that they spent what they spent and "you can go figure it out". The Collins Aerospace guy had no number to offer either. Again, so much for transparency in this government/industry partnershipOh and despite NASA awarding contracts worth up to $3.5 billion for new spacesuits for the ISS and the Moon - no one actually has pictures to share of the spacesuits that $3.5 billion from NASA will buy.One media question asked why NASA is going to spend more money on spacesuits than a Human Lander System since it would seem that a lander is more complicated than a spacesuit. Answer - a fast talking NASA guy: moon ships are moon ships and spacesuits are spacesuits.Meanwhile no one at NASA has any idea when an actual Moon landing will happen. Categories: Artemis, ISS News Does Anyone Know Where The National Space Council Is Hiding? By Keith Cowing on June 1, 2022 12:00 AM. View Comments"> View Comments Keith's note: It is June 2022. The last time the National Space Council poked its head out through the curtains was December 2021. Six months. Does anyone know what they are doing?If you go to the official National Space Council Users' Advisory Group (NSpC UAG) page at NASA you are greeted with banner image of the Trump Administration's UAG. If you go to the membership roster page it lists the same Trump UAG membership and was last updated on 8 June 2020. NASA put a notice out to get new UAG members last year and then had to extend that since no one was repsonding. But 6 months later and we've heard absolutely nothing about the UAG membership, what the UAG will do, when it will meet etc. The last meeting was 30 July 2020.And of course if you go to the NASA Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR) who oversees all of those advisory committee things at NASA they make no mention of the National Space Council or the UAG - at all. There is a National Space Council page at the White House with 3 paragraphs of generic text and a link to one document about a framework issued in December 2021 which is mostly buzz words and talking points - but little else. Chirag Parikh runs the National Space Council but there is no mention of him on the White House web page or how to contact him or his staff (he has staff right?). We only hear from him once every few months when he goes to some inside the beltway thing and gets quoted. But other than a few routine executive orders that any White House could have issued, there is no heart or soul residing within whatever it is that the White House wants to do in space. Remember the early days of the Biden Administration when there was mention of the Moon once a week in a presidential speech and we all got jazzed about Moon rocks on a shelf in the Oval Office? Not any more. I would ask NASA PAO about this but they are among the most clueless when it comes to what is actually going on in terms of space policy.It is June now. 6 months have passed since the Nationaal Space Council did one of the meeting things. The UAG is still in limbo. If anyone knows what is going on please feel free to post in the comments section or tweet a comment.After 9 Months Biden's Space Policy Is Totally TBD, earlier post (3 Nov 2021)"After the first deadline for the Space Council's Users Advisory Group (UAG) membership solicitation came and went (low response rate apparently) they extended it another month. The new date was 29 October so, given the glacial pace that space policy moves these days, it will be next year before we find out who is on the UAG. And of course we'll need to see when it meets and whether it will be yet another space policy Potemkin village with no real responsibilities. And when it comes to OSTP and NSC there's nothing but crickets there."National Space Council Meeting Update, earlier post (1 Dec 2021)"On Wednesday, December 1 at 1:30pm EST, Vice President Kamala Harris will convene the Biden-Harris Administration's inaugural National Space Council meeting at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. The Vice President, who chairs the National Space Council, will deliver remarks laying out the Administration's whole-of-government approach to ensuring that space activities create opportunities that benefit the American people and the world. ... In conjunction with the meeting, President Joe Biden will sign a new Executive Order on Wednesday, December 1 that addresses the membership, duties, and responsibilities of the Council."Space Team Biden Needs To Get The Space Council Thing Right The Very First Time, earlier post (14 Nov 2021)"If the value of space, as put forth by this Administration, is not instantly obvious - and pre-briefed to cynical media/stake holders in advance - then the whole NSpC effort - and the Biden/Harris Administration's chances of doing something valuable in space - will evaporate before they even start. There are really no second chances to get things right in DC any more." United States Space Priorities Framework"We are in a historic moment: space activities are rapidly accelerating, resulting in new opportunities in multiple sectors of society, as well as new challenges to U.S. space leadership, global space governance, the sustainability of the space environment, and safe and secure space operations. Burgeoning U.S. space activities are a source of American strength at home and abroad - from providing tangible economic and societal benefits to Americans to expanding our network of alliances and partnerships."- National Space Council's Chirag Parikh Says The Right Things- Actors Were Hired To Promote The Whole VP Space Thing- The National Space Council Meeting That No One Is Talking About- Sleepwalking Through Space Policy At NASA Categories: Biden Space, Policy Russia Uses ISS Resupply Rocket To Spread False Ukraine Propaganda By Keith Cowing on May 31, 2022 11:50 AM. View Comments"> View Comments Keith's note: According to the NASA TV schedule: "Friday, June 3 5:15 a.m. - Coverage of the launch of the ISS Progress 81 cargo craft (Launch scheduled at 5:32 a.m. EDT)" Apparently NASA is going to air live video that clearly shows a rocket with Russian propaganda regarding the war in Ukraine on its side in immense, hard to miss lettering. Really NASA?The Soyuz 2.1A rocket with Progress MS-20 that will fly to the ISS has "Донбасс" - Donbass - painted on its side in plain view. More sickening mockery by @Rogozin and @Roscosmos of the brutal invasion of #Ukraine and slaughter of its innocent citizens. pic.twitter.com/EMjQYGEJOt— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 31, 2022 Categories: ISS News, Russia A NASA Spinoff With A Real World Impact That NASA Will Ignore By Keith Cowing on May 31, 2022 10:26 AM. View Comments"> View Comments Toyota Connected 'Cabin Awareness' Concept Uses New Tech to Detect Occupants, Toyota"Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), an independent software and innovation center of excellence, today introduced its Cabin Awareness concept technology that uses millimeter-wave, high-resolution 4D imaging radar to help detect occupants (including certain pets) in cars and has the potential to detect them if ever they're left behind. ... Inspiration for the Cabin Awareness concept came from microwave radar technology created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support underground rescues after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in 2015. In this application, NASA engineers and rescuers were able to detect human breathing and heartbeats under more than 30 feet of rubble, helping responders know where to dig holes. "NASA's use of radar technology was inspiring," said Kursar. "The idea that you can listen to heartbeats using contact-less technology opens up new possibilities to give Toyota the potential to produce a service that is beneficial to the evolution of our in-vehicle services."Using Space Radar To Hear Human Heartbeats in Nepal, SpaceRef (2015)"On 24 April 2015 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal - a nation woefully unprepared to respond to such an event. Nearly 300 aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or greater have rattled the country for the past month. One especially large aftershock of magnitude 7.4 on 12 May caused the already-shattered infrastructure to collapse further. Nepal needed help - help that did not rely upon a non-functional infrastructure. Much of the help was traditional. But some of that help arrived in the form of assets in space and space-derived assets on the ground. One piece of NASA-developed hardware utilized in Nepal was able to detect human heartbeat amidst huge piles of rubble. And it saved lives. Other machines orbited overhead in space analyzing the earthquake itself and how Nepal changed as a result. Both technologies shared similar technology."Radar Device Detects Heartbeats Trapped under Wreckage, NASA Spinoffs (2018)"In the early 2000s, the Department of Defense approached JPL wondering about the possibility of using remote sensing to determine whether there were troops alive on a battlefield and to take remote biomedical readings. Some work was done, and Lux says the latter application could still be of interest for monitoring astronauts in the International Space Station, for example. But funding dried up." Keith's note: A piece of innovative NASA technology has truly spun off to inspire a possible commercial product by Toyota that could affect millions of consumers. Let's see if NASA even notices. Categories: Commercialization Commercial Space Y'all By Keith Cowing on May 27, 2022 9:00 PM. View Comments"> View Comments #commercialspace y'all pic.twitter.com/f1jJEIhp0h— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 27, 2022 Categories: Commercialization More stories for June. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }/* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. 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