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#26 2017-06-11 08:16:09

SpaceNut
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Re: Corporate pork v. useful activity - ...and thoughts on what to do now

Oldfart1939 wrote:

It's my belief that the Trump administration will be more brutal in the dismemberment of NASA's roles; some of the agency's activities will simply be curtailed and/or eliminated. NASA certainly needs some focus on central scientific roles instead of having too many small splinter groups within.

This may come to pass but its also where the congress has stepped up to keep work in there congressional districts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

The ten NASA field centers are:

    John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
    Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
    Armstrong Flight Research Center (formerly Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Facility), Edwards, California
    Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California
    Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
    Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
    John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
    George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
    John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Numerous other facilities are operated by NASA, including the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia; the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana; the White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Deep Space Network stations in Barstow, California; Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia.


To much sprawl.....

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#27 2017-06-11 08:29:24

SpaceNut
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Re: Corporate pork v. useful activity - ...and thoughts on what to do now

Lets see what do we get for the first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center

launch sites, integration....and a standing army doing next to nothing between launches.....

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