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Out Now! . Pathway to the Stars: Part 7, Span of Influence . "To be worthy to journey the stars, conditions must be such that if a group of explorers were to return home many millennia later, humanity will not have faded away into nothing. Instead, they will have preserved the homeworld and home solar system, and even improved upon the beauty, the abundance, and the ability of longevity of life in every way that is positive and possible." . ~ Eliza Williams works with her team in the Pathway organization to increase her span of influence throughout the world. Journey with Vesha Celeste as she continues her adventures with Yesha Alevtina in the Virtual Universe, understanding more fully how Eliza's team has become the enigmatic propagator of the future. With tech cities spanning the Solar System yet hidden from those who have not been read-in, humanity will be breath taken to behold them. Eliza takes on some of the biggest titans of every industry and teaches them what she believes will fuel the future -- kindness, shared-well-being, compassion, and consent, or what she coins as Universal Ethics! . Span of Influence - ISBN: 9781951321055, LCCN: 2019918436 eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081XHLJ36 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951321073 . #sciencefiction #scifi #spaceopera #fantasy #stem #astronomy #industry #wellbeing #author #matthewjopdyke #ebook #paperback #amazon https://www.instagram.com/p/B5syxGIh4Ac/?igshid=1a0lrrqlkt4kv
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I had the awesome opportunity to have coffee with Johnson Space Center (JSC) Director Ellen Ochoa and Deputy Director Mark Geyer. Above I am pictured to the left of Ochoa in a red blazer and I look pretty serious writing notes. JSC leaders have been striving to hear voices from employees up high, in the trenches, wise, and new. Recently JSC Center and Deputy Directors have hosted coffees to share their goals for JSC and listen to concerns. Ochoa and Geyer shared their vision of JSC 2.016, how NASA can do more with less resources and deliver what is expected and beyond on current missions. Out of all NASA contractors and civil servants I was randomly selected to share my perspective and concerns as a Co-Op.
JSC 2.016
It's no secret that NASA's budget is far less than it was during the Apollo Era. NASA's budget was over 4% of the federal budget during the Space Race to the Moon and now below 1% despite NASA's goals to journey to Mars. Keeping realistic in funds and resources JSC 2.016 is a mantra adopted by NASA employees to do more with the resources they have. At the coffee Ochoa shared that the goals of JSC 2.016 is to ensure our work is pushing forward NASA's current missions, enabling change by listening to and adopting new ideas, removing obstacles that hinder progress, and share NASA's missions with communities.
Concerns
Before attending the coffee I polled JSC interns and Co-Ops to see if they had concerns and questions to share. Within moments of the coffee starting Ochoa and Geyer shared essential insights on how NASA’s mission is evolving in a five, ten and beyond year sense - it was very Carl Sagan Cosmos-esk. Once I was brought to this level of long-term thinking my key concern broadened from specifics. During my opportunity to talk I mentioned the concern about the vagueness of the Journey to Mars mission compared to the solidity of Space Launch System, Orion, Space Station and Commercial Crew missions. I was surprised to hear that fluidity of our Journey to Mars is actually intended. Discoveries and knowledge from Space Launch System, Orion, Space Station and Commercial Crew missions are necessary before solidifying the Journey to Mars. During those missions we will collect a lot of data on the vehicles that will be carrying our astronauts, learn new things we didn’t plan to learn and test the waters with deep space collaboration with private industries and international partners. Fluidity is the nature of NASA’s long-term impact on humanity which is unique to all other forces in the world advocating for short term instant gratification (short term can even mean one year, eight years and even decades compared to humanity as a whole). NASA must deliver what is expected of us and beyond on these current solid missions to ensure more solidified Mars related mission in the future.
We Still Need NASA
With all the SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and general private space industry hype some may have the impression that we no longer need NASA for space exploration. Articles titled "U.S. government should fund private space companies, not NASA" paint false claims of competition between government space missions and private industry. During this coffee this misconception of competition was expunged and I was re-energized about why we still need NASA. NASA, as a subset of the US Government, awards contracts to private space companies that would otherwise not be able to pursue these aerospace endeavors because they do not bring in a profit. The government can risk to make these long-term investments without certainty of short-term instant gratification like profit. There is a tendency to forget that NASA has been contracting work to private companies since the 1960s. Grumman Aircraft was contracted to build the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) in 1962. Being a government agency, NASA can foster a unique relationship between other countries space agencies such as ROSCOSMOS, JAXA and ESA. Through decades NASA is the government agency that has lead the cohesiveness and steady beat of the drum of space exploration progress.
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Remember the latest update involving Stanley Tucci?
He sits with -host- Gemma Styles to promote certain charitable causes; fine.
Status: Sideway eye-catching the fanbase.
Following an IG pro-BBG account.
Status: Catching the fanbase's attention
Reason: The man is playing Clive Davis in Whitney Houston biopic coming up this year.
We are super used to this kind of auto promo or tactics focused on introducing new projects to new audiences, this fandom has witnessed them before. It happens in many fields, personally, I have also seen similar situations in my professional environment repeated times.
In this case, in addition to the evident connection to SONY, there are interesting observations to add to our library; who Clive Davis really is and why could be relevant to get to know him better?
Basically, the man has been the founder or head of all those Sony companies at some point and now he is indulging himself might be represented as Houston's discoverer in the biopic.
Summarizing, with Sony based, we recall Columbia, Arista, RCA and BMG. Sounds familiar?
Before this settles any panic, (the actual) BMG was founded in October 2008 after Bertelsmann sold its stake in Sony BMG & is 100% owned by Bertelsmann and one of the group's eight business divisions. Sony is also a distributor, such as Universal is to Harry in the US, so the participation within other labels may vary depending on the artist/country, but that's another story.
Back in July 2020, Louis announced via Twitter that his contract with SYCO, his label until the moment, had come to an end. In May 2021 Louis announced he was joining the BMG family for his second album: Press release 📰
These progressive changes can mean only positive things and great opportunities for Louis ahead and add up to all the modifications we have been getting since 2020: here
Talking about this, the following matter came up "Is Louis still attached to Sony?" Sadly, I believe all of the boys still have strings to their 1D contracts - which I think is the main issue- and that ends up in the label. Also, if nothing has changed, Louis is still the director of the Third String (which is under the wing of Sony).
I wish I knew more facts about labels, about their integrity and management quality since if you scratch a bit in other fanbases there are always "cases" and ugly stories too, which leads to thinking the industry is just built up in toxicity. Nothing new. My expectations or desire is that eventually, we get more switches like Louis' and that hopefully, these bring actual and factual results, we are so ready to see them as soon as possible.
The US certainly did play a huge role in beating the Nazis, too. The Leand-Lease act sent billions of dollars worth of supplies across the Atlantic, which was a major factor in the allied victory. Roughly 30% of the trucks, bombers, and fighters used by the Soviet Union by the end of the war were US-supplied, not to mention the immense amount of food shipped over.
We did beat them, not with guns but with farms and factories (and then we helped with the guns part at the end).
