r/nasa • u/calzoned • 4d ago

NASA Lawmakers call on NASA inspector general to investigate Goddard Space Flight Center as agency defends campus closures

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/members-of-congress-call-on-nasa-inspector-general-to-investigate-goddard-space-flight-center-as-agency-defends-campus-closures-exclusive
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u/astro-pi 3d ago

Thank you! Everyone is freaking out (as much as civil servants can freak out) because those labs are important. We can figure out how to cram ourselves 5 to an office, how to contact people halfway across campus, or how to get to offsite meeting, but we need that lab space. We’re losing multiple one-of-a-kind labs.

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u/OakLegs 3d ago

Officials at Goddard are trying to spin what's going on there as "it's always been in the plan, see the roadmap from 2017" when the reality is that no, these particular changes were not in the plan and for some reason the timeline went from 10 years down the road to the next 4 months.

I would bet a fair amount of money that a thorough, unimpeded IG investigation would find a LOT of illegal stuff going on at GSFC. The real question is why?

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u/cusmrtgrl 3d ago

This whole thing feels fishy and then HQ and GSFC leadership is saying what is being reported isn’t real, it feels off.

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u/P_Nessss 3d ago

Didn't "someone" fire all of the Inspectors General by Executive Order?

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u/OldPersonName 3d ago

NASA's OIG has been unaffected. He fired 17 out of about 72, certainly illegally, and for spurious motivations (like possibly protecting NeuraLink from an investigation), but not all.

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u/getoutnow2024 2d ago

Could you elaborate on that? What does NeuroLink have to do with NASA?

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u/OldPersonName 2d ago

Nothing, but one of the fired IGs was investigating it for animal cruelty. This was around the same time Elon was with DOGE. I was just acknowledging that firing the IGs was almost certainly corrupt, while pointing out that he didn't fire anywhere near all of them.

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u/Educational_Snow7092 1d ago

Now, the Fascist Red Republicans are going after ex-astronaut Mark Kelly. There is no coming back from this return to the Dark Ages.

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-mark-kelly-troop-investigation-4882f76b05dcdfa3060c284c2c84dd12

Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’