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The issue of communication regarding the anomaly with the general public has been one raised since the very beginning, even with public statements from NASA and SpaceX on the day of and the initial days after the anomaly.<\/p>\nAs part of a planned presentation to the NASA Advisory Council, NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program manager, Kathy Lueders, updated the advisory council on the status of the investigation for SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon anomaly that occurred in April. <\/p>\n
Ms. Lueders did not go into in-depth detail but did highlight SpaceX\u2019s daily communication with NASA, the \u201cgreat job\u201d done so far, and provided insight into changes that \u201cmight be\u201d needed to the Crew Dragon\u2019s SuperDraco system.<\/p>\n
More so, Ms. Lueders revealed the readiness dates for the new Crew Dragon capsules that will fly the In Flight Abort and Demo 2 crew test flights.\n<\/p>\n
Anomaly update and question of communication issues:<\/b><\/p>\n
Ms. Lueders began her overall update on all elements of the Commercial Crew Program to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) by stating that \u201cI think sometimes people don\u2019t understand how much we are engaged and working with each of the providers as they\u2019re performing these final critical test and verification activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
To this end, Ms. Lueders spent a good deal of time emphasizing how involved NASA personnel have been from the very beginning of the investigation into the anomaly suffered by SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon during its planned SuperDraco static fire on 20 April.<\/p>\n
The issue of communication regarding the anomaly with the general public has been one raised since the very beginning, even with public statements from NASA and SpaceX on the day of and the initial days after the anomaly.<\/p>\n
However, more than a month out, those questions and when information will be revealed to taxpayers is a more necessary question. And curiously, it\u2019s a question NASA does not appear to want to answer itself from a Public Affairs standpoint.<\/p>\n
Spaceflight news subscription (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n Last Thursday during an Apollo 50th Anniversary event at the Kennedy Space Center, Center Director Bob Cabana and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine were asked about the secrecy surrounding information on this anomaly and if taxpayers should be worried.<\/p>\n Mr. Cabana spent a little more than a minute praising SpaceX\u2019s communication with NASA and emphasizing that there has been no secrecy from NASA\u2019s contractor on this matter.<\/p>\n What NASA Public Affairs then edited out of the publicly released video of that Question and Answer session was Administrator Bridenstine stepping in to admit that communication on this issue had been poor \u2013 though exactly which agency\u2019s communication he was referring to, NASA or SpaceX, was ambiguous.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n