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Posted by LorenDB 2 days ago

NASA Force(nasaforce.gov)
260 points | 263 commentspage 6
ButlerianJihad 2 days ago|
I 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

_joel 2 days ago||
Not a thirsty rocket
ahhhhnoooo 2 days ago||
Lol. Gross. Weird comment.
digitalShield 2 days ago||
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erdaniels 2 days ago||
Yet 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.
gcanyon 2 days ago|
Wait, really? I’m not doubting you, I just didn’t go far enough into the application process to validate one way or the other.
erdaniels 2 days ago||
Yeah it was the same thing with tech force or whatever it was. It's on the last page of the application.
gcanyon 1 day ago||
eww
InvisibleUp 2 days ago||
Isn’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.
kevinten10 2 days ago||
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chimerasaurus 2 days 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.

MAGAtssuck 2 days ago||
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pona-a 2 days ago||
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voodoo_child 2 days ago|
If 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 2 days ago||
I 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.

givinguflac 2 days ago||
This is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.
dmazin 2 days ago||
Agreed.

That said if this bothers you I highly recommend not looking up how many Space Shuttle missions are classified.

kube-system 2 days ago||
Technology and defense technology have been inextricably linked since the wheel and fire were new technologies.
givinguflac 1 day ago||
So what? Doesn’t mean I have to be a part of it or support it.
kube-system 1 day ago||
Of course you don't have to, it just seems a bit hypocritical to complain about it over DoD's TCP/IP.
doener 2 days ago|
As long as Trump is still President every sane human being should stay away from any federal agency.
EricRiese 2 days ago||
The entirety of the government doesn't turn over every 4 years, especially at a technical org like NASA. You're still going to be working at NASA with a team of NASA people. Plus if they're hiring you know your team in particular won't be a target of layoffs.
seanalltogether 2 days ago||
> The appropriated FY2026 budget has the largest discrepancy from the White House Request since 1987 at nearly 30%.[3] The request, submitted in May 2025, proposed a 24% cut to NASA's overall budget.[4] In January 2026, Congress passed the final budget, rejecting nearly all of the proposed cuts.

From wikipedia. The white house is pushing for major cuts to Nasa

wayeq 2 days ago|||
... so that the only people left doing those jobs are sycophants?
Cycl0ps 2 days ago||
Incompetent sycophants
xpe 2 days ago||
I 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 2 days ago|||
Given 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?
drstewart 2 days ago|||
> I am actually skeptical of people who step up to work for the government at this moment in time.

I'm sure this wounds them deeply.

Given what we're facing worldwide, I'd say more people are skeptical of anyone that works in tech at this moment in time.

>There's a lot of nationalist language on this site.

Incredibly the US government isn't anti-US. This may come as a surprise to some in certain online bubbles.

>do we really want to give any assistance to the goals of this administration?

The goals of going to the moon? You're right, it's a giant waste of money when there are problems to be solved on earth. Something many people have been saying for a long time. Glad you're coming around.

hellojesus 2 days ago||||
I 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.
nozzlegear 2 days ago|||
NASA had a nationalist origin and has always kept those undertones even in the modern day, but I don't think anyone's ever accused it of being partisan. I don't believe many Americans associate NASA with any particular president, except maybe JFK, and I don't believe they'd conflate working for NASA with working for Trump.
Rooster61 2 days ago||||
I think part of the point of OP was that this isn't a good way to support people to step up. It's frankly bizarre and has dubious future prospects like any other federal program under the current administration.
LtWorf 2 days ago|||
Good people need to make a living too!
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