NASA’s Associate Administrator Mary Cleave, who famously canceled the Dawn mission minutes after a meeting with Congress about science cutbacks, is leaving NASA. This means a job position is opening up, as well as a few others.
I wonder if I should apply…? Nah. They can’t afford me; it would take a substantial fraction of NASA’s budget to get me to move back east. Plus, I doubt they’d like my position on science subjects. But it’s fun to dream.
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Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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September 23rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
They don’t know what they are missing in you if they don’t come begging to you on their collective hands and knees.
Besides, couldn’t you do the job from home remotely anyway?
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:42 am
Go, Go, Go BA!
(but stay here at the same time:-))
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Go for it, dude.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Sadly, this has become a situation like Supreme Court vacancies, where I wish the guy would just hold out until the next administration…
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Well that’s to bad, when I get older and gratuate from Harvard I’m gonna work at NASA! ^_^
When I become the all mighty dictater of NASA, I’ll see to it they make some MAJOR changes.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I hear Hoagland’s available ………..
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:47 pm
I’ll do it, but only if I can build some Battlestars.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 pm
If you joined NASA then you would not be in a position to debunk the HB’s as this is best done by those outside of NASA.
September 24th, 2006 at 2:04 am
and you could do that slow motion walk towards the camera in your space suit….
September 24th, 2006 at 5:54 am
You could be like the Mulder of NASA
September 24th, 2006 at 9:25 am
u might even be able to discover a planet and walk on it while saying a metaphor…that would be AWEOSOME!!!
September 24th, 2006 at 11:11 am
BA,
You’ll never get the job as long as you keep using the NASA worm logo.
September 24th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I’d love to do it, but I would guess that not having a PhD would be a limiting factor.
September 25th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
What, Phil, you don’t want to move back to the DC area? Why not?
Besides, you’re too blunt for NASA and you’re not willing to get your nose brown or learn “double-speak”.
September 25th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I used the worm logo on purpose. It was hard to find a good one on the web! I’ll use it from here on out whenever I’m mocking NASA.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Can’t say I like the “meatball” any better. Perhaps the first thing you can do when you become master of NASA is to find a decent logo.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
It might be nice working for NASA, but the paperwork might be a stretch.
September 26th, 2006 at 7:51 am
Looks to me there’s a bunch of high level science offices. Sounds to me like 1) someone’s cleaning house, or 2) a bunch of people protesting.
Sounds to me like a tough job to have. Being told that the Science budget is getting cut to $X and you have to figure out what to get rid of to make the budget work, then having to go eat the flack for making the tough decisions and doing what your boss mandated.
September 27th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Working at those particular NASA jobs look to be a sure way to an ulcer or a heart attack. Please save yourself, Phil.
October 2nd, 2006 at 3:08 am
Kalpana Chawla Died in NASA AirCraft coming back to earth :((