Interesting - another "Acting" head of something. Chaos is Trump's "leadership" style.

[llmart]

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/gerstenmaier-ouster-catches-space-community-by-surprise

[Botany]

1. Fucking Trump

"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made the announcement about 8:30 pm ET. In a memo to employees, he said he was making the change in order to meet the Trump Administration’s goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024 — the Artemis program. Also dismissed was Bill Hill, Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development. He has been in charge of development of NASA’s big new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and Orion crew spacecraft. Tom Whitmeyer will replace Hill in an acting capacity."


So firing the person in charge of designing, engineering, and building new spacecraft will help getting us back
to the moon?

[llmart]

2. Moon, schmoon...

He doesn't give a rat's ass about space exploration. He has given Pence the responsibility for making decisions about NASA. Isn't that just peachy? Pence doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ozone about anything let alone space exploration. He's made a few appearances at Kennedy Space Center and tries to look interested. According to my son who works there, he still ends up looking like the potted plant in the corner.