NASA flexibility

[Gerard Zwaan]

Would the Zetas choose to comment on the recent dismissal of NASA's Heliophysics Director? [and from another] NASA Heliophysics Director Fired. June 16, 2014.http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/40868nasa-heliophysics...  David Chenette, a veteran solar scientist who came to NASA from industry Sept. 30, will leave his position June 20, according to an official termination notice dated June 6 and signed by NASA Associate Administrator for Science John Grunsfeld, Chenette’s supervisor.  The former Lockheed Martin executive had sown “confusion and apprehension in the scientific community.” Chenette bungled planning for the $800 million Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, impeded the progress of a NASA space weather program, and took a lackadaisical approach to a volunteer-led effort to restart an old NASA heliophysics mission, the International Sun/Earth Explorer-3. [and from another] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mms/index.html#.U7ZwSbFBlPY  The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ only in our solar system and most efficiently only in Earth’s magnetosphere, where they control the dynamics of the geospace environment and play an important role in the processes known as space weather.  [and from another] This news is very curious and strange.  [and from another] http://www.space.com/26075-nasa-isee3-spacecraft-contact-success.html  Private Group Makes Contact with 36-Year-Old NASA Spacecraft. Red tape and a moderate earthquake did not deter a private group from meeting its goal of making contact with a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft that has been slumbering in deep space since 1997. This was after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the area earlier this week during testing, temporarily shutting down telescope operations. The group plans to put the spacecraft in the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1 (ES-1), a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.  [and from another]http://www.space.com/25976-nasa-isee3-spacecraft-revival-private-te...  ISEE-3, which in 1978 became the first satellite to enter a halo orbit at a gravity-stable Lagrange point between the Earth and the sun, made history again in 1985 as the first probe to visit a comet.  ICE was then redirected to study coronal mass ejections from the sun, before being decommissioned in 1997, and although it was still in space, donated to the Smithsonian.  The ISEE-3 Reboot Project's team, which includes Robert Farquhar, the former NASA mission design specialist who was responsible for turning ISEE-3 into ICE 30 years ago, successfully heard from the spacecraft this week by using the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Whither NASA in a changing culture! Employees operating within NASA in the past were hired based on a personality that was comfortable with an unquestioning adherence to rules, tunnel vision wherein only a part of the mission was understood and all operated on a need-to-know basis, and a willingness to seal much of what they observed from the general public. NASA employees were aware that the alien presence was real, UFOs visiting the space station, but could be counted upon to stay mum. Likewise with the pending passage of Planet X, which NASA monitors obsessively. These are not independent thinkers, nor is creative or resourceful thinking allowed. 

Enter the dual announcement, wherein the presence of Planet X will be admitted, the pending passage, with the inclusion of the accuracy of ZetaTalk expected to virtually break the cover-up over the alien presence. Suddenly everything NASA employees have been told was highly secret will be under discussion in the media. Where NASA employees can rightly claim they understood they were operating under Reagan’s Executive Orders on the matter, there will be personal stress under changed expectations.  David Chenette was hired to closely monitor and report upon the Earth’s erratic magnetic field, directing the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. It was clear that new blood and ideas were needed. But the existing employees at NASA insisted that the old culture prevail. 

The public will want eyes on the passing rogue planet, demand to known the best estimate on its passage, its anticipated trajectory, and for every major earthquake or obvious wobble in the Earth, will want to know what the immediate future will bring. Farmers have been devastated by drought and deluge, hurricane strength storms and tidal influx on the increase, and lately airplanes disappearing from radar or disabled by electro-magnetic flux. The plates are on the move, land rising or sinking, and since the public is going to be increasingly thrown onto ZetaTalk for answers, the predictions for the future are worse. 

NASA will be thrown from a protected and insulated culture into the spotlight, and they are not ready. The personalities of those hired in the past for NASA were such that a rigid set of rules and expectations were in place. Now they will be asked to be flexible, resourceful, and operate independently if no prior directive covers the emergency, and NASA employees are simply not able to step into those shoes. Thus, increasingly, private industry will take over the functions that NASA is frankly unable to fulfill. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is a case in point. This maneuverable craft will be positioned between the Earth and Sun at a Lagrange Point such that it will be in prime position to image the approach of Planet X, taking the pressure off NASA, at least in part. 

Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for July 5, 2014