{"id":783892,"date":"2026-05-09T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:53:18","slug":"the-red-wedding-has-begun-at-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783892\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Wedding Has Begun At NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wallops.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Wedding Has Begun At NASA\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith\u2019s Note<\/strong>: If you read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-names-brian-hughes-to-launch-operations-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NASA pre<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-names-brian-hughes-to-launch-operations-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>s<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-names-brian-hughes-to-launch-operations-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>s release<\/strong><\/a> regarding former NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes\u2019 return to NASA It says \u201cReporting to NASA Headquarters in Washington, Hughes will have direct responsibility for launch operations at NASA Kennedy, as well as the agency\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. He will work across government, industry, and local leadership to strengthen coordination among stakeholders supporting NASA\u2019s spaceports, enable increased launch cadence, and support execution of the President\u2019s National Space Policy to ensure continued American leadership in space.\u201d As such, the decades-long management by NASA Goddard of NASA Wallops \u2013 a launch facility in Virginia (a blue state) will now be run out of Florida (a red state) \u2013 thus continuing the deliberate shrinkage of NASA Goddard. And while NASA HQ is not being moved out of Washington DC, some of its major functions will be moving to Florida. Stay tuned as other aspects of the long-anticipated <strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/trumpspace\/nasas-red-wedding-preview-or-paranoia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Wedding<\/a>\u201c<\/strong> unfold at NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith\u2019s Note: If you read the NASA press release regarding former NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes\u2019 return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[320648,40953,71873,916,320649,159,68291,67,132,68,63634],"class_list":["post-783892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-brianhughes","tag-gsfc","tag-ksc","tag-nasa","tag-red-wedding","tag-science","tag-trump-space","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wallops"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116543778054569811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}