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Here is what the muse brought.

“All the Signs Were There”

Walking on the beach,
sinking her feet into rain-soaked sand,
she moved toward the sea.

Aware of all surrounding her,
the smell of the storm receding,
leading her to follow.

Others remained behind,
nurturing the tribe,
releasing her to Lorelei.

Her lineage established,
beyond her ken.
Children she would never know.

In the bones of her face,
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extravagant, extraordinary dexterity.

Inquisitive eyes.
What did she see?
What could she imagine?

One hundred thousand years ago,
she trailed the storm.
the sky clearing behind her.

Humanity before her,
traversing time,
she stood at the shore of her descendants.

Emerging intelligence which would, in time,
yield wit and wisdom, and power enough,
to lift sons and daughters to flight.

All the signs were there
of star-flung choreography,
dancing down the ancient dune.

As - mother of humanity -
uplifted by her journey,
she curled her toes into the sand.

               - M. L. Dittmar

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I spent the week in Washington, D.C., getting out 4 hours before the snow started falling on Friday.  Long week with NASA/Big Aerospace/”New Space”/AAS/AIAA colleagues, talking about NASA’s “new direction”.  Except that the new direction isn’t a direction at all, it is simply a policy change.  “Direction” implies a plan - and there is no plan.   Together with the cheap autocad 2012 mac complete miscalculation as to how the workforce and Congress would react - something I had cheap autocad 2012 mac been warning about since last summer, trying again as recently as last week - and cheap autocad 2012 mac I wasn’t the only one - the entire roll out of the the “redirection” has been an exercise in how NOT to provide guidance.  It has cheap autocad 2012 mac also been unnecessarily traumatic, particularly to the several thousand of the cheap autocad 2012 mac nation’s best and brightest who fear for their jobs.

One almost wonders if the cheap autocad 2012 mac last minute decision not to prepare the way was calculated to cheap autocad 2012 mac create a backlash. 

I’m on record in more than one place with my belief that NASA would not leave Low Earth Orbit until forced out  Well, here we are, and I have mixed emotions.  All-in-all, I’m an optimist and look forward to charting a new course.  But I certainly could not have imagined that the “transition” to commercial space providers would be done without a net.  Even from Washington, I expected better.  I was wrong. 

There is no transition plan.

Not yet. 

But I’ve never been one to tolerate a vacuum for long. 

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Meanwhile, I don’t seem to cheap autocad 2012 mac be able to do big policy shifts and exercise at the cheap autocad 2012 mac same time.  (That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.)  Of course, buying several “medicinal” martinis for peers over the week - and having a few myself - didn’t help.   So, yesterday I picked up the cheap autocad 2012 mac rubber bands and did the upper body workout.  This morning I was up at 3:15 CT for cheap autocad 2012 mac the Space Shuttle launch scheduled for 3:49 and am already sore.  The launch was scrubbed due to heavy cloud cover, but I can’t get back to sleep.  I twittered with a cheap autocad 2012 mac few colleagues down at the Cape and then headed to cheap autocad 2012 mac the kitchen for to make a chocolate soy latte.  Generally speaking, if I’m hitting chocolate first thing in the cheap autocad 2012 mac day, rather than last, I’m serious about getting some things done.

So here I am, sitting up with Tigger, my companion of 15 years.  I have cheap autocad 2012 mac a longer relationship with Tigger than I have with any other male in my life, save my father - and cheap autocad 2012 mac he passed almost 30 years ago.  Not sure what cheap autocad 2012 mac that says about me, other than the obvious fact that cheap autocad 2012 mac I’m hard to live with.  But I am sure what it says about Tigger.   He represents his species extraordinarily well.

I wonder if he’s got any ideas about space exploration?

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As Jeff Foust pointed out in his January 30, 2010 Space Politics acronis backup and recovery 10 uninstall script post – “It’s silly season”.  His well-placed comment was aimed at the “rhetorical flourishes” of certain individuals, notably members of Congress, as they weighed in with uninformed opinions a-plenty regarding the cheap autocad 2012 mac NASA budget that no one had seen.

As is cheap autocad 2012 mac typical for many in Congress and most in the media, not having any facts upon which to cheap autocad 2012 mac base public discourse sure doesn’t seem to stop some people.

Administrator Bolden will talk about NASA’s shift in direction on Monday afternoon, February 1 at 3:00 pm ET.  There will be cheap autocad 2012 mac a lot more blogging, punditry, bitching, sky-is-falling gnashing of teeth – and sadly, real fear, real pain, and real despair. 

No doubt about it.  Change is hard.

Fear, pain and despair shouldn’t be ignored.  If they are, they have a way of festering.  Unfortunately, society is not comfortable speaking about them.  And if society isn’t comfortable, imagine how such discussions play within an cheap autocad 2012 mac aerospace community composed of engineers and scientists and aviators and cheap autocad 2012 mac steely-eyed missile men and women.

But it is HUMAN space flight (HSF) we are discussing, after all.  And we can’t do human space flight without taking the cheap autocad 2012 mac state of the humans involved into account, any more than we would fail to cheap autocad 2012 mac take into account the health of hardware or the robustness of engineering and cheap autocad 2012 mac operations processes.

From an email I sent to a colleague this week:

“A path must be cheap autocad 2012 mac forged and communicated that makes sense, that promises a future for cheap autocad 2012 mac HSF (although not necessarily for jobs) – and cheap autocad 2012 mac most of all, that places the contributions made by all these people across these many years into a cheap autocad 2012 mac meaningful context.  The worst thing about these kinds of shifts is cheap autocad 2012 mac that they leave people questioning their own value, or believing that cheap autocad 2012 mac others do not see their value or the value of their life’s work. In addition to cheap autocad 2012 mac all the practical fears about jobs in a lousy economy, this cheap autocad 2012 mac can create terrific resentment and even grief, and depression.  We know that it is this pain that lingers for years – more than the economic pain.”

So - pain is real, fear is real, despair is real.  But giving into it would be a senseless tragedy. 

Almost hidden amongst the cheap autocad 2012 mac rapid currents of change, there are small groups of people hard at work shaping new paradigms for cheap autocad 2012 mac human space flight.  They’ve been at it for a while now.  Many, although not all, are within NASA.  The majority are seasoned professionals, who have weathered change before.  Several of them are part of what I fondly call “the rebel alliance”-  fanning out into all kinds of areas, pitching temporary camp here and cheap autocad 2012 mac there, and cultivating whatever they need to support HSF.  Often this cheap autocad 2012 mac is done without regard for institutional boundaries or political correctness or cheap autocad 2012 mac for climbing the career ladder.  Off and on, I have been among their ranks.

These people, and others like them, are often a pain in the ass.  They can be cantankerous.  They are, to a person, stubborn as hell. 

Every organization that cheap autocad 2012 mac succeeds over time makes room for these folks, sooner or cheap autocad 2012 mac later.  They thrive when assumptions are demolished.  They are cheap autocad 2012 mac able to accept the current realities and uncertainties and go forward anyway. They know that cheap autocad 2012 mac changes in institutions and assumptions open up new frontiers.  Impatient, restless, hard-headed and eager, they are plotting the course.   And since at present within NASA there are cheap autocad 2012 mac several such groups who are only beginning to be known to cheap autocad 2012 mac each other, there are several such courses bubbling up from beneath the cheap autocad 2012 mac surface. 

We are cheap autocad 2012 mac at a moment in time that is open to ideas - although ideas alone are cheap autocad 2012 mac not enough.  Navigating rapid change requires more discipline, not less.  It requires determination and faith and hard, hard, HARD work.  But the possibilities….oh, the possibilities…!

It is cheap autocad 2012 mac true that we do not control all things - or even most things - but we do influence the cheap autocad 2012 mac future through our action, or inaction.  Painful as it can be,  brilliance and creativity sometimes require the destruction of previous frameworks.  That’s what we mean by “out of the box thinking”.  Sometimes we’re lucky enough to cheap autocad 2012 mac live through a time when the box itself disappears.  This is one of those times.

It IS silly season - and there will be plenty of doom and gloom.  Remind yourself that you haven’t the energy to suffer fools - and then, don’t.  Remember that cheap autocad 2012 mac you are focused on safeguarding the legacy of human space flight and cheap autocad 2012 mac are responsible for passing it on, that you are protecting and cheap autocad 2012 mac nurturing a national/global asset, that cheap autocad 2012 mac you are preparing crews and equipment to fly safely and successfully, and cheap autocad 2012 mac that in every day of your life you are summoning the cheap autocad 2012 mac future, whether you realize it or not. 

The future will be what we make it.

Most of all, remember that cheap autocad 2012 mac this community holds within it the resources, talents, creativity, skills, expertise, hopes and cheap autocad 2012 mac dreams of some of the most dedicated and passionate people on Earth.  It’s a big community.  It’s much bigger than NASA. Those of us who cheap autocad 2012 mac have ever been privileged to work within it remain a cheap autocad 2012 mac part of it.  It is, in fact, NASA’s greatest legacy. 

And I, for one, cannot wait to see what happens next.

                                    - Mary Lynne Dittmar

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As a cheap autocad 2012 mac country with the privilege of voting that others have died for cheap autocad 2012 mac (our own military as well as reformers and cheap autocad 2012 mac political activists around the world), we’re get what we deserve - and we’re a disgrace.   If we choose not to cheap autocad 2012 mac participate - if we allow large entities with deep pockets to cheap autocad 2012 mac tell us what to do -  then they’re going to be able to buy any election they choose.

But there is a solution.  There really is.  Get off your ass, get your head in the game, and VOTE.

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