This may have the best branding / naming -- of all of them though. Grin. Here's a bit, from NASA's coverage blogs:
. . .Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is nearly on top of its Moon landing on Sunday, March 2, after launching on Jan.15. In preparation for landing, Blue Ghost completed its final lunar orbit maneuver on Monday, Feb. 24. This maneuver inserted Blue Ghost into a near-circular low lunar orbit, bringing the lander ever closer to the lunar surface.
Now, about one hour before touchdown in the early Sunday morning hours East Coast time, Blue Ghost will complete its Descent Orbit Insertion burn, which will initiate the lander’s descent trajectory toward its landing site on the near side of the Moon. . . .
With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:34 a.m. EST Sunday, March 2, to set their Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, in the northeast quadrant on the near side of the Moon, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Live coverage of the landing, jointly hosted by NASA and Firefly, will air on NASA+ starting at 2:20 a.m. EST, approximately 75 minutes before touch down on the Moon’s surface. . . .
Do stop back in, if you can't fall asleep as your clocks "Spring Forward" (or are sitting in a bar, at closing time) -- as we will have the live video updated, right here. Onward.
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Got new email from OPM requesting 5 bullet accomplishment. To be done every week
Yikes! In theory, at least based on sworn statements from Elon minions in the federal courts in DC and SF, this email was supposed to use the word "should" -- not "must". . . and it was supposed to say you and your manager should talk about it. It also is NOT supposed to copy OPM on your reply.
Can you describe it -- a lil' more granularly?
Three USDC Judges have now ruled that OPM should NOT be involved in these dot point communications, at any level. The OPM / DOGE "agencies" lack any statutory or rule based oversight role at any other agency. And I know you don't work for OPM.
Feel free not to share, but I would very much like to make a new entry of whatever this new dot point language now says -- permissive or mandatory.
Thank you for being willing to share, in this insanely topsy turvy time.
Namaste. . . .
To: OPM_ALLEMPLOEE_NOTIFICATION@LIST.NIH.GOV
Message of high importance
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager
Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59 pm ET
Please do not send (in bold) links, attachments, or any classified/sensitive information. If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write “All of my activities are sensitive.”
Thank you so much!
All of this is just. . . surreal.
It is likely that one of the three USDC Judges will rule that this sort of communication, coming out of OPM. . . must cease.
OPM has zero authority in HR matters inside Defense, FBI, SEC, HUD or HHS/NIH.
That is black letter law of all these cases. Damnation.
To my eye, saying "please" -- and removing the "you'll be terminated if you don't". . . doesn't make it immune from challenge.
If you are on good terms with your supervisor, I might submit them only to the supervisor (as a courtesy, and indicate that you do so because you respect the agency that was once "above reproach"). I might even say that you are saddened that partisan politics now infect science at NIH in this way.
But I suppose that would be. . . intemperate.
So, maybe better to say none of that.
I will make this all a new post this afternoon -- with new graphics!
Thank you so, SO much -- and do hang in there. We will ALWAYS need real scientists like you, at NIH!
Namaste.
All immediate management is pushing up ladder to get senior management position on responses. None of them responded to prior email
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