{"id":120333,"date":"2025-08-30T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120333\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:34:07","slug":"nasa-is-worth-fighting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120333\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Is Worth Fighting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/willis.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Is Worth Fighting For\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                                                            Bruce Willis in \u201cArmageddon\u201d.                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>Keith\u2019s note: I posted this note elsewhere last night wherein I wear my heart on my spacesuit sleeve. Oh well. Things change quickly.  The latest Executive Order banning unions at NASA pushed me over the edge. That said, this note is still where my head is at. I originally thought that I\u2019d just dial things down, live in the woods with my wife, and people would just go elsewhere for NASA tidbits. Well, I am flattered and rather shocked at the sheer number supportive emails and notes I have gotten in the past week \u2013 many of them rather long \u2013 mostly from people I simply did not know. I do now. That said, here\u2019s my original note. Please take care of yourselves but do NOT stop the fight to keep the enemies of NASA from destroying American space exploration leadership. If not now, then when? \u2013 if not you, then who?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier note: FYI Actor Bruce Willis, 70, is suffering from dementia. I will be 70 in 2 months. I lost two parents to Alzheimer\u2019s. Life is short. Talent and a lifetime of memories can evaporate in a moment. If you are wondering why I am on hiatus from NASAWatch this is part of the reason why. It takes a toll \u2013 especially after 30 years of doing it. I came out of retirement and was (re)running it at 125% of capacity \u2013 and still the attack on NASA continued \u2013 undaunted. I am just one person. Unless many, many more stand up and speak out then there is little else that I can do that I have not already done. But I guess I will try (again) \u2013 but not just yet. Ad Astra y\u2019all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis in \u201cArmageddon\u201d. Keith\u2019s note: I posted this note elsewhere last night wherein I wear my heart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[718,79,193],"class_list":["post-120333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}