...In regards to cutting the education budget.Quote“Aerospace is a growing sector that provides good quality jobs here in the US. We want to get students from all backgrounds trained in these fields,” says Larson. “STEM education is critical to our long-term competitiveness as a country, and it's interesting in a year where a movie like Hidden Figures was on the national stage that the administration would de-emphasize the role NASA plays in getting kids excited about space.”
“Aerospace is a growing sector that provides good quality jobs here in the US. We want to get students from all backgrounds trained in these fields,” says Larson. “STEM education is critical to our long-term competitiveness as a country, and it's interesting in a year where a movie like Hidden Figures was on the national stage that the administration would de-emphasize the role NASA plays in getting kids excited about space.”
Quote from: Star One on 03/18/2017 09:55 am...In regards to cutting the education budget.Quote“Aerospace is a growing sector that provides good quality jobs here in the US. We want to get students from all backgrounds trained in these fields,” says Larson. “STEM education is critical to our long-term competitiveness as a country, and it's interesting in a year where a movie like Hidden Figures was on the national stage that the administration would de-emphasize the role NASA plays in getting kids excited about space.”Results are important, not just intentions. How much more effective can NASA be at inspiring youth by either, 1. doing something inspirational, or 2. talking about doing something inspirational.The administration is choosing to use NASA money for #1. (they could have chosen to cut NASA by 20%)
I think that if you're going to discuss the education office at NASA, it might help if you looked into what it actually does instead of writing in generalities like "inspiration" or "contribute to STEM."
NASA Invites You to Create James Webb Space Telescope-inspired ArtHow? Browse through our images and videos and see what inspires you. Create art! (Note: this is not limited to art you can hang on a wall.) Share it with us on social media.Why?In November 2016, a small group of artists was selected to visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to see the James Webb Space Telescope in person, and to be inspired to create art. They have been busy ever since, producing amazing work that we are presenting for exhibit during Spring 2017 at the Goddard Visitor Center (date TBA).Their offerings include painting, poetry, sculpting, textiles, woodworking, music, silk screening, 3-D design, jewelry, posters, tattooing and letterpress printing.Though we were only able to physically accommodate a small number of artists, we were so impressed by the number of talented people who were interested in participating. We want to offer more artists a chance to participate virtually.
Every other activity has 'inspire' or STEM in it.That's apparently what they think their job is.
Jonathan Amos @BBCAmosNasa EO chief Mike Freilich at #Banff #Canada suggests DSCOVR's Earth-facing data could simply be stored but not analysed under FY18 cut
QuoteJonathan Amos @BBCAmosNasa EO chief Mike Freilich at #Banff #Canada suggests DSCOVR's Earth-facing data could simply be stored but not analysed under FY18 cuthttps://mobile.twitter.com/BBCAmos/status/843889088507920385
Raw data from an instrument without some kind of analysis is very nearly the same as noise.
FWIW
He's laying groundwork for the next phase... that is more presidential text on the space program than the last several administrations combined.
Quote from: AncientU on 03/25/2017 10:05 pmHe's laying groundwork for the next phase... that is more presidential text on the space program than the last several administrations combined.Not that I remember. Clinton, Bush and Obama put a lot of political capital into space, and Trump has yet to do that.
Maybe he will, and it's still early in his term, but so far he hasn't...
...First of all, he is proposing to cut NASA's budget. ...
More significantly, Trump has transmitted a consistent negative message about space, from the campaign trail, where he said that filling potholes was more important, to the last week's signing of the 2017 NASA authorization, where he said, in response to Rep. Culberson's remark about creating an Interplanetary Highway System, "First we want to fix the highways, need to fix the highways. Got to fix the highways."[/url] (6:00).
Quote from: AncientU on 03/25/2017 10:05 pmHe's laying groundwork for the next phase... that is more presidential text on the space program than the last several administrations combined.Not that I remember. Clinton, Bush and Obama put a lot of political capital into space, and Trump has yet to do that.Maybe he will, and it's still early in his term, but so far he hasn't...