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NASA Force
- ghostpepper 6mo agoHow do they have budget for this but not for decent production values on the Artemis 2 livestream?
- Rebelgecko 6mo agoIt looks like this come from the White House, not NASA's defunded communication budget
- johnhess 6mo agoThe first sentence isn't even a sentence.
- Waterluvian 6mo agoSure it is. You can fit a lot of technologists inside space flight and aeronautics systems if you push hard enough.
- happyopossum 6mo ago"fit" - you added a verb. That makes it a sentence.
- Waterluvian 6mo agoI was thinking we verb the second word: NASA force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery.
- tencentshill 6mo agoCool website, Big Balls. Where's our social security data?
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- Terr_ 6mo agoJust in case a reader has blissfully managed to not-remember last year: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-coristine-invs https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-cor...
- tencentshill 6mo agoA more recent update confirming he likely worked on the website: https://www.wired.com/story/where-the-doge-operatives-are-now/ https://www.wired.com/story/where-the-doge-operatives-are-no...
- givinguflac 6mo agoThis is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.
- dmazin 6mo agoAgreed. That said if this bothers you I highly recommend not looking up how many Space Shuttle missions are classified.
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- kube-system 6mo agoTechnology and defense technology have been inextricably linked since the wheel and fire were new technologies.
- givinguflac 6mo agoSo what? Doesn’t mean I have to be a part of it or support it.
- kube-system 6mo agoOf course you don't have to, it just seems a bit hypocritical to complain about it over DoD's TCP/IP.
- whatshisface 6mo ago"We fired all of our employees. Now we're hiring temporary consultants."
- xpe 6mo agoThese job postings opened today on April 17 and close in four days (on April 21). This is highly compressed and highly unusual. Being no fan of the current administration and its hangers-on, my brain quickly jumps to less flattering reasons for these short time windows. A four day application window favors people they want to select. They may well have told certain people in advance to be ready. I don't have direct "proof" of this, and I'm open to learning more, but the current administration has beyond exhausted any presumption of fair dealing. I encourage anyone and everyone interested to apply and report back. NASA has a good mission and its needs people with a moral backbone and intrinsic pro-science drive.
- sybercecurity 6mo agoThat has been the assumption in most of these cases. The agency must already have a list of people they want, so a short window keeps the risk of someone else jumping to the front of the queue.
- secretsatan 6mo agoI’m sure it’s based on merit
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoI initially thought this was a call for technologists to commit to volunteering on a deep technical project for four days. That’s not enough time to design a component. But it might e.g. let some minor work on a protocol advance.
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- maciejzj 6mo agoIs this gig-workification of the space industry?
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- cshimmin 6mo agoIt kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.
- bilekas 6mo ago> But without having to waste your time getting a PhD Ah yes, that 'waste of times' having to learn things in aeronautics and physics..
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- GaryBluto 6mo agoBetteridge's law of Hacker News comments.
- doener 6mo agoAs long as Trump is still President every sane human being should stay away from any federal agency.
- xpe 6mo agoI understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it), but we want the opposite to be true. Let's find ways to support good people who step up. Edits (in case my meaning above is not clear): 1. When I write "but we want the opposite to be true" I mean this: if only Trump-aligned or Trump-tolerant people sign up for these roles, I do not think this is desirable for NASA. 2. When I write "I understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it)" I mean: from an individual point of view, I fully grant that many people would be better off seeking work elsewhere. 3. My experience and scientific research shows that people are not merely selfish actors. While individual incentives matter a lot, perhaps even predominantly, it isn't accurate to claim that we can fully explain human behavior with exclusively narrow individualist framings. 4. Many of us act selfishly much of the time, and this is indeed reasonable and even beneficial at times. But taken to an extreme it can be worse overall, even for those individuals. See: game theory, social connections, morality, and so on. 5. When I write "Let's find ways to support good people who step up" I do mean concrete things such as "let's crowdfund ethical people's legal fees" to survive the Trump administration.
- RIMR 6mo agoGiven what we're facing, I am actually skeptical of people who step up to work for the government at this moment in time. There's a lot of nationalist language on this site. Even if your motivations are for science, do we really want to give any assistance to the goals of this administration?
- hellojesus 6mo agoI think it's a bit of, "Be the change you want to see". It may not be a bad thing to get tech folk with sense into these roles. They probably tend to have enough of a cushion to be able to refuse unethical work without worrying about the immediate consequences.
- rafram 6mo agoAnother barely usable website from the "National Design Studio." I wish they'd take a cue from gov.uk (or even the US Digital Service and 18F, which they gutted) and build clean, functional, and accessible sites... but the crew of web developers who are willing to work for this administration seem way too obsessed with this defense-tech startup landing page aesthetic to care about usability. The developer of this scroll-smoothing JS library [1] has a lot to answer for. [1]: https://www.lenis.dev/ https://www.lenis.dev/
- beej71 6mo agoIt misbehaves on Android FF, as well.
- rationalist 6mo agoIt works on my Android FF.
- jmye 6mo agoTruly the "maximum lethality" of web design. And that's ignoring how terrible "NASA Force" is as a name. It's like it's all out of a bad 80s cartoon.
- scrumper 6mo agoTwo things: - I like the rolling Moon animation very much. - This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again. I guess it's also a neat kind of try-before-you-buy for both sides. NASA is prestigious and one of the very few places one could do purely science-focused aerospace engineering, but it's still a government job under all the gold leaf and atomic robots. EDIT: Good Lord, I get the cynicism but at least someone at NASA HR is trying new things to keep the lights on.
- porridgeraisin 6mo agoIsn't most of the actual aerospace R&D work contracted out?
- jvanderbot 6mo agoNo
- porridgeraisin 6mo agoWhat kind of research happens outside academia-attached labs like JPL and outside MIC firms like lockheed/boeing?
- OhMeadhbh 6mo agoThere are a fair number of engineers at centers (Stennis, Ames, Kennedy, etc.) that are government employees. When I was NASA-adjacent, it seemed they wrote the specs and testing regimes. I think the government even did some of the testing with government-employed test engineers and technicians. But yeah, a lot of the manufacturing is done by contractors. There's a joke in the aero world that F-16s are designed by people Ph.D.'s, manufactured by people with Masters degrees, flown by people with a Batchelor's degree in History and maintained by people with a High School Diploma. It turns out you have to make jobs for people at all levels of education and experience.
- beej71 6mo agoWonder what the job security is like.
- ahhhhnoooo 6mo agoNegligible. You'd be a fool to apply. Let alone accept.
- daviding 6mo agoMy 5090 couldn't handle that starfield at the beginning. I got a 1202 alarm just scrolling down..
- Bender 6mo agoOdd. My laptop seemed to do fine with a 'NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile [Discrete]' using CachyOS. It could have been a little smoother but it rendered fine. There were a couple spots where it was a little herky-jerky-laggy that maybe needs optimization.
- sirtimbly 6mo agoohhh... right, clearly, they only expected Mac users to open the web page or to apply.
- Flere-Imsaho 6mo agoIt's an OS thing. My Pixel 9 handled it just fine. Windows by any chance?
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- signorovitch 6mo agoRan smooth on both my iPhone and my 13-year-old thinkpad x230.
- xpe 6mo ago> More opportunities will be posted here in the coming months. Click here to sign up for updates to stay informed when new roles open. Which links to: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/sKWkWfp https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/sKWkWfp Would anyone like to do some citizen journalism and see if the Constant Contact data handling is done above-board. I've done some Claude research -- enough to make me suspicious -- but I Am Not A Lawyer.
- Avicebron 6mo agoDid anyone scroll down far enough to see the "automate air traffic controllers"? I guess technically it's aeronautics but I didn't know that was part of NASA
- yieldcrv 6mo agoits an air administration the space part gets the most attention
- piloto_ciego 6mo agoI saw that, I was a pilot for many years, and this would actually be kind of cool technology if it could be done right. I'm half tempted to apply. One of my customers right now is frustrated because they have the tower closed at weird hours at their principle base of operations and they can't depart flights conveniently because of staffing shortages. Clearances are a bitch too... the whole thing is kind of wild and it's kind of a safety hazard when this airport goes uncontrolled. Anything that would help out - even cameras that would let the tower controllers at the primary airport see WTF is happening at the satellite field would be helpful...
- 650REDHAIR 6mo agoYes, our stretched thin controllers watching the feed from a satellite field makes total sense. Maybe they could try a pilot program somewhere like LGA?
- piloto_ciego 6mo agoSituational awareness is situational awareness. We still do in AK, but we used to have good Flight Service Stations that could provide advisory workload permitting. AI tooling to provide traffic advisories when there are critical staffing shortages would be a godsend in some parts, and they don't necessarily need to even remotely be close to provide some help. Obviously, that's not going to work at Teterhole or LGA, but the air traffic system is more than just the east coast. There's tons of staffing shortages across the whole country. My first thought is, "we should hire more controllers and pay them better" - but if we're not going to do that or if we can't recruit and train fast enough (we can't really), some automation would be good.
- hellojesus 6mo agoWhy is this called Nasa Force when the linked job is for an Areospace Engineer? The usa.jobs site only shows 15 open reqs for Nasa, and they are almost all engineering roles, save a few accounting/finance ones. Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the fancy landing page (that provides zero actual info) if that's the case? No Data Science or developer openings for tech folk that don't have Abet certified engineering degrees? I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa? And the pay range for the aerospace engineer is okayish, but it's not really out-competiting more senior tech folks in any capacity.
- antisthenes 6mo agoYeah, there definitely needs to be more transparency about the whole initiative. Either it's "We're hiring ~1000 IT/Engineering specialists across multiple domains" or it's "Hey, just apply on USAJobs for the open positions". Otherwise it just feels like throwing an application into the black hole of some kafkaesque talent management system.
- jvanderbot 6mo agoYou'll have better luck visiting the various center's websites.
- alephnerd 6mo ago> I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa Yes. And it always did since the 1950s unless you were interested in relocating. Ffs aerospace engineering cannot be done remotely, and that too in a city with a nonexistent aerospace industry. > Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the fancy landing page (that provides zero actual info) if that's the case? No Data Science or developer openings for tech folk that don't have Abet certified engineering degrees Not all industries need SWEs who are CRUD monkeys. And your assumption deeply underestimates how most Aerospace and Mechanical Engineers know how to develop at a CS level now as well - most MechE and Aerospace undergrad programs now see their students double major or minor in CompE or CS.
- pcj-github 6mo agoThis is so cringe. Who are the people behind this god awful "national design studio", and how are they related to MAGA / Trump? Assuredly yet another insider cronyism deal that degrades trust in the US government. Claude: The National Design Studio (NDS) is a new White House agency that Trump created by executive order on August 21, 2025, as part of an initiative called "America by Design." It lives inside the White House Office of the Executive Office of the President. The setup The executive order established the NDS along with a new position: Chief Design Officer of the United States Trump appointed Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founder) as the first Chief Design Officer Gebbia previously worked at DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) alongside Elon Musk on modernizing federal retirement paperwork The stated goal: overhaul roughly 26,000 federal websites and physical government interfaces to be "both usable and beautiful" — Gebbia has compared the target experience to "the Apple Store" Initial results are required by July 4, 2026 (the US 250th anniversary), and the temporary organization within NDS is scheduled to sunset after three years
- righthand 6mo agoIt’s the brain dead rebranding of what Trump thought USDS was doing.
- bilekas 6mo agoThis really screams and reads like a crypto scam or something, also why would they not use the official NASA logo ? This is so strange.. I'm still not even clear on what it's for..
- metalliqaz 6mo agoIt reads like it received no proof-reading or editing, and it looks like it was vibe coded. Intern project?
- kami23 6mo agoI would love to work for NASA so much even at a significant pay cut, but almost everything I've read in the past was they still do drug screenings for a lot of positions I was interested in. Maybe someday they will pull their heads out of the dark ages.
- jesse_dot_id 6mo agoNormally I would agree but I get it with regards to NASA. They do life and death stuff that has like zero margin of error. They probably shouldn't be in the business of hiring people who's edible might be lasting longer than they expected.
- nozzlegear 6mo agoFrankly, drug screenings for employees can only benefit NASA given the kind of work they do.
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- tiberone 6mo ago> NASA Force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?
- RIMR 6mo agoI mean, I can make sense of it, but it's written like it's describing a picture or something. As a standalone sentence, it is weird.
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- Rooster61 6mo agoI can't. It is a subject without a predicate. It doesn't look like valid English to my eyes.
- Thorrez 6mo agoYes, it's a subject without a predicate. So it's not a complete sentence. That doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. Let's say there's an image with the caption "A man looking at a fish in a tank." That's similarly a subject without a predicate, but it still makes sense as a photo caption.
- boogieknite 6mo agoor a headline about coercion. even that would be "forces"
- kokanee 6mo agoThis website is vibe coded
- kevin_thibedeau 6mo agoNo cross site scripts so they have that going for them. Better then 99% of the web already.
- dangoodmanUT 6mo agoyou can tell this was generated with Gemini, the way it loves to do those "enter on scroll" sentences
- lucb1e 6mo agoDo you mean the "highlight more words as you scroll down the text" effect?
- brianjlogan 6mo agoMy key indicator is if I scroll right on mobile and see horizontal bleed over. For some reason models still fail at this so it's clearly vibe coded.
- InvisibleUp 6mo agoIsn’t the Office of Personnel Management still under the control of DOGE? I’m wondering if this is an actual internship program or a way to sneak Elon Musk’s SpaceX buddies into NASA.
- big_toast 6mo agoWhy does the application window last four days? Charitably they're moving fast, but without already having people in mind for the roles or having created the hiring pipeline, how do you reach a sufficiently large audience. Is there an explanation I'm missing? Was this announced a while ago? Makes it feel like they already know who they want for the roles/preferential selection. On a longer or recurring timescale, seems like a cool way to reach out to potential hires.
- soraki_soladead 6mo agoI'm not saying you're wrong but then why do a big website and branding push. If they had someone in mind they'd bury it on a regular job posting. They specify early to mid career. Imo they're anticipating a ton of applications and bounding it makes reviewing them tractable.
- big_toast 6mo agoYa, I don't understand the calculus. If it's important enough for a big website, why not promote the site for a week first. Too many applications seems more desirable than missing the right people who are 'heads down building' or just not terminally online. That on top of Direct Hire Authority. I can see NASA Force[1] is part of the US Tech Force[2] push and has been talked about for the last several months. [1]:https://www.meritalk.com/articles/nasa-opm-kick-off-drive-for-top-technologists/ https://www.meritalk.com/articles/nasa-opm-kick-off-drive-fo... [2]:https://meritalk.com/articles/opm-launches-us-tech-force-to-recruit-early-career-talent/ https://meritalk.com/articles/opm-launches-us-tech-force-to-...
- browningstreet 6mo agoI think the hint of violence was deliberate.
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- stickman393 6mo agoNASA should have co-opted "Space Force" from the get-go; funding might not have been such an issue
- sph 6mo agoIt's already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
- Rebelgecko 6mo agoSo is this collecting signups for new GS-12s? Or is this program able to offer more competitive compensation?
- jacobsenscott 6mo ago> ...for a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?... What? This sounds like a phishing email from before phishing emails got good.
- boywitharupee 6mo agothe timer and urgency of this reminds me of the movie Armageddon where they had limited time to form a crew for a space mission.
- ISL 6mo agoSpaceflight requires relentless deliberate progress. An exploding job-recruitment offer might not attract the kind of folks we want designing a system that absolutely must work after a decade in space. I've worked with NASA and ESA employees/contractors who've made technical miracles happen in space. I don't think any of them would be drawn to this style of recruitment.
- sublinear 6mo agoI got the impression that despite using terms like "mission critical", this isn't about the hardcore technical wizardry behind propulsion and safety. This is a call for developers of the very long tail of logistics related stuff. I'd imagine a moon base would need someone to write the software for schedulers, dashboards, etc. and engineer the parts that interface with and provide non-critical telemetry to those systems. I'm not saying that stuff isn't hard, but it's not anything life or death. Some of those roles might not even be technical at all and be more about coordinating the human side of those efforts.
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- sailfast 6mo ago"Build a website - it's almost like you got the job done already" - Someone in the White House OEOB The new National Design Studio that replaced the USDS does not seem to be capable of building a website that is accessible, performant, and not overly bombastic / hyperbolic. Completely unreadable. Animation fails at the top, on a decently provisioned Mac laptop with 16GB of RAM. Either way - it's unfortunate that the Technology Fellows, GSA, and other programs that brought folks into industry for roles exactly like this were unceremoniously destroyed in quite cruel and silly ways. Why would I apply for this? Fool me once...
- rozab 6mo agoThe copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better >technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them, and your contributions move from concept to operation. For a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?
- nine_k 6mo agoI don't see any big trouble with the quoted text. The language is a bit nerdy, and a bit bureaucratic, but that's exactly what I'd expect from NASA.
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- archontes 6mo agoThis has got Russell Vought's fingerprints on it, mark my words. There's some way this is enshittified.
- rdiddly 6mo agoIt's scattered and disorganized like this administration. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them OK alongside, but not ON, the teams building them? So apparently not actually building them myself? And also, does anyone build missions, or do they perhaps build systems? For a few days, access is granted to this work. Access is granted to whom? And to what work, the work I'll supposedly be doing? Hopefully yeah I have access to my own work. Or do you mean the work of the people alongside whom I'll be working on missions (the builders of the missions that is)? The number is extremely limited. What number? The window only lasts four days. Oh now there's a window analogy too. And they already said "a few days" so one of the two is redundant.
- phendrenad2 6mo agoGuys, I figured it out. This isn't just a 4-day window for an Aerospace Engineer position, that's just the beta test. They're preparing for calling up a wave of volunteer civilians who want to spend a few months on Mars (and maybe even come back).
- krunck 6mo agoSuch urgency. They're definitely racing China to the moon.
- OhMeadhbh 6mo agoIs this just USAJOBS way of getting more resumes so they can give them to xAI or OpenAI as a training set?
- mg794613 6mo agoLet me get back to you if I find someone who wants to relocate to the USA.
- paultopia 6mo agoBased on the name I’d thought it was going to be another militarization project, thank god it isn’t.
- CoastalCoder 6mo agoI had the same thought. But can we really rule out it being part of such a strategy?
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- voodoo_child 6mo agoIf I’m not misunderstanding; Its not a complex project, and allows them bootstrap a recruitment campaign fast to take advantage of Artemis hype. I don’t understand why being vibe coded or reusing/recycling other designs matters?
- pona-a 6mo agoI partially agree, but my problem is it's visibly vacuous. It's not hard to design a web page like this, and with a proper workflow, design system/components, and staff it's trivial for an organization to assemble as is without resorting to AI slop. That just feels disrespectful to the reader when what you expect me to read may or may not have been a single prompt.
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- tonymet 6mo agoI envisioned a tactical unit like For All Mankind. I can’t imagine that China would allow the US to colonize the moon. It’s effectively an infinite nuke factory. Any Heinlein fan would recognize that.
- EricRiese 6mo agoExperience necessary. From Assessment 1, which you only get to after spending $16 ordering your college transcript... > I have 1 year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service that included: Performing program/project management of space, aeronautical flight systems or experimental aircraft/aircraft systems that involve planning, researching, designing, developing, testing and evaluating, or completing cost analyses; Analyzing, designing, or operating space flight systems, aeronautical flight systems, experimental aircraft/aircraft systems, or structures operating throughout the earth's atmosphere; Developing requirements and integrating aerospace or flight/ground systems (e.g., payloads, hardware/software, scientific instruments, communication equipment, cargo, or any other specialized equipment).
- EricRiese 6mo agoI answered honestly that I didn't and it didn't block my submission. I have the specific Computer Science/Engineering degree they spell out in length in one question (30 credit hours CS, 16 credit hours math/calculus/stats) so I feel like that gives me a chance on top of the narrow window. Glad I skipped ahead on the optional essay section. YOLO.
- spelunker 6mo agoThey want my college transcript? From the early 00's? I would like to think I've grown a bit professionally since then.
- EricRiese 6mo agoIt's the government. They care more about creating objective standards so they can't be sued for bias than they do about hiring the best people.
- erdaniels 6mo agoYet another US Job application where you need to answer "How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?". Instant pass.
- tills13 6mo agoSo are they defunding NASA or not?
- johnnyApplePRNG 6mo agoI'm just gonna leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_c...
- mmcconnell1618 6mo agoNASA "Force?" It sounds very similar to Space Force and Air Force and adds a militaristic tone to NASA. Maybe that is the intent. I know that NASA and the military are closely linked but the general brand of NASA is a the science-focused civilian side while something like Space Force would be the military side.
- thegrim33 6mo agoIt is a word with multiple meanings. One such meaning is "a group of people brought together and organized for a particular activity."
- radley 6mo agoOr perhaps "to compel someone to act against their will or to break through resistance." But knowing this administration, "an energy field created by all living things that surrounds, penetrates, and binds the galaxy together."
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- mjmsmith 6mo agoI honestly wouldn't be surprised if this administration thinks it sounds more manly.
- cdrnsf 6mo ago10.5MB page weight for a landing page? This national design studio is...not great.
- lucb1e 6mo agoTry making a webpage using an LLM when you don't explicitly tell it to optimize for page weight. Not that developers get to spend much time optimizing, but they can actually think and make reasonable choices of how to build it and will notice if it's noticeably slower in e.g. the integration environment compared to localhost (even if I'm sure they have good machines and connections compared to 90% of users, at >10MB you start to notice, whereas token predictors do not have a concept of time while fetching the page in a test run)
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoI would personally give anything to work with, next to, alongside, or near Chelsea Gohd, aka Foxanne, the foxiest ever NASA spokeswoman and outreach narrator https://youtu.be/gNwkawLGDkg?si=tY6FCMtTsOQNRfHG https://youtu.be/gNwkawLGDkg?si=tY6FCMtTsOQNRfHG
- _joel 6mo agoNot a thirsty rocket
- ahhhhnoooo 6mo agoLol. Gross. Weird comment.
- blendo 6mo agoSearching for more DOGE-boy wrecking balls?
- chimerasaurus 6mo ago> You will join a collaborative, mission-driven team where ideas are valued, contributions are recognized, and innovation is part of everyday work. Wow, gee wiz. I can’t wait to synergize in real time for action oriented solutions. /s This website feels like an HR person asked Claude to make a website. If you’re swayed by a simple website, you’re not high caliber talent.
- gigatexal 6mo agoWhy anyone would willingly leave the private sector to work for this administration of charlatans, rapists, drunkards and grifters is beyond me. Wait till there’s a new administration. Vote for sanity first. Then let government stabilize. Then join. Not now.
- robotresearcher 6mo ago"NASAFORCE technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery." First hire should a verb.
- yalogin 6mo agoI am confused or misinformed. I thought the administration has severely gutted nasa, did it not? Yet they are doubling down on the brand?
- consumer451 6mo agoHere is what is likely the authoritative piece on what is actually happening: https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal-in-charts https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal... Casey Dreier and the Planetary Society drove the halt to last year's proposed NASA science gutting insanity. Please help them do it again. There are things us normies can do about this 2026 proposed inefficiency.
- 1970-01-01 6mo agoNASA FORCE: When you want to figure out how your stargate works, but have a limited budget for the research.
- redanddead 6mo agoDid anybody else peep this? https://ndstudio.gov/ https://ndstudio.gov/
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoThat's the AirBnB / DOGE guy's web design grift.
- insane_dreamer 6mo agoCheesy, with "join the Army" vibes, but maybe it'll appeal to some dude out there, I guess
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- calmbonsai 6mo agoThis, THIS is how any org signals they don't have a budget. Build a "fancy" high-concept paper-thin-veneer website that's adjacent of their extant canonical DNS. Also, it really, really doesn't help that they're attempting to riff off of the "Space Force" BS. FWIW, the NRO https://www.nro.gov/ https://www.nro.gov/ has been the actual "space force" for over half a century.
- epsteingpt 6mo agoPretty cool. We're getting much better govt. websites now.
- reassess_blind 6mo agoThe initial lightspeed animation lags on my beefy gaming desktop.
- gbbloke 6mo agoI'm currently reading Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest and clickin on this website gave me the chills.
- hexo 6mo agoWhat is it about? I can't get past this "scrolling" website formats. Makes my brain hurt.
- parsimo2010 6mo agoThe top of the page says "For a few days only" and a little later on it says something like "Early to mid career engineers with terms of 1-2 years" So what is the time limited part? The application window? Also, how is this different from the regular government hiring process? NASA already posts job openings and takes applications for open positions. I'm pretty sure they aren't actually getting around the federal rule of "to hire someone you must have an open billet to put them in." So what is the NASA Force and what is different? It takes weeks to months to finalize the paperwork and make someone a federal employee. So we're making the application window open for a limited time for what reason? The website is cool but I'm not really sure what the program is. They've already been able to hire eager people willing to take a mediocre salary compared to the rest of the space industry.
- khuey 6mo agoBoth. There's a narrow application window and the positions are also for fixed terms (rather than permanent employment). Not really sure there's any benefit here to the applicant. Perhaps NASA is just trying to capture a bit of the Artemis 2 hype for recruiting.
- parsimo2010 6mo agoA term hire is still a federal employee, just with the uncertainty of your term being renewed or extended. I’m not really sure what they are hoping to get out of this- even if they were hiring at the highest step, this is trying to hire an engineer from the space industry with significant experience for 200k. That’s total comp because you don’t get options as a federal employee and the retirement matching for a short term is insignificant. It really seems like they haven’t done anything to change the value proposition of being a government employee, they just made a cool name and website. But the _qualified_ people who are willing to work for the government in the space industry would already be familiar with their options. Anyone who wasn’t already willing to work for NASA probably isn’t swayed by the fancy name and website. As soon as they get into the actual paperwork process and talk to someone they’ll realize it’s not that different from having applied through the regular process.
- LeCompteSftware 6mo ago>> In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) plant development for a sustainable lunar outpost The image is clearly Mars.
- brutal_chaos_ 6mo agoHey, wanna potential future at something amazong while you work for free (basically)? /s I love that NASA is hiring, I worry this is because NASA doesn't have funding.
- starkeeper 6mo agoOfficial Government Age Discrimination
- justinclift 6mo agoThe previous version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cktmS-yaxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cktmS-yaxM