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More changes in NASA’s upper management

NASA yesterday announced more changes in its upper management, almost all related to its manned Artemis program.

NASA announced today that Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche is now Acting Associate Administrator, succeeding Jim Free who retired over the weekend. Cathy Koerner, who has been leading the mission directorate that manages the Artemis program, will retire this Friday. Her Deputy, Lori Glaze, will take over on an acting basis.

These are not major changes. The new appointees, Wyche and Glaze, have been upper managers for a long time within NASA’s manned management structure that has created the present Artemis program.

These changes are also tentative depending on what Jared Isaacman decides to do once he is confirmed by the Senate as the actual administrator, replacing Janet Petro, who was named last week as the acting administrator. If Isaacman and Trump decide on canceling SLS and restructuring the entire Artemis program, both might also decide it needs an entirely new management staff.

I must also note the lack of any men in this list. NASA’s DEI effort for decades as apparently left no guys in that upper management, or if they are there, it continues to push them aside to support DEI racial and sex quotas, even though it now does not use those terms.

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7 comments

  • James Street

    China may be able to build space stations and place landers on other planets, but $50 bucks says NASA has them beat hands down when it comes to DEI.

  • Doubting Thomas

    Robert – I noticed the same thing. All women. Imagine that.

    Do you (or anybody) have any idea when Issacman will begin his confirmation hearings?

  • Jeff Wright

    Wyche and Glaze??

    This is Dick Tracy’s world–and we are just living in it.

    So who’s Flattop?

  • Htos1av

    NASA? Please, NOTHING but homo Ra worshipers of the Egyptian bent….

  • Calvin G Dodge

    Meanwhile, Scott Pace has abandoned his support of SLS.

  • Richard M

    Do you (or anybody) have any idea when Issacman will begin his confirmation hearings?

    As of last week, there still was no hearing date set, because the Senate had not received the paperwork on Isaacman from the White House yet. I don’t know why that is taking so long.

    By the way….Reports surfaced in the last few days that Isaacman was sued for substantial gambling debts back in 2009. He apparently settled the suits. I don’t think it will be a real obstacle if there has been nothing like that in the 15 years since, but I imagine it is at least going to come up in the hearing when it happens.

  • Doubting Thomas

    Richard M – Thanks for info

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