Today's Farewell Town Hall At NASA

Charlie Bolden and Dava Newman react to Robert Lightfoot talking about showing some poor kid a #NASA Powerpoint presentation on an airplane http://pic.twitter.com/ZoKadIINZi

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Keith's note: I managed to watch today's NASA Town Hall broadcast (internally) on NASA TV today. Here are my @NASAWatch tweets - in sequence.

- NASA Landing Team has asked #NASA CFO David Radzanowski to stay on to "help get them over the hump" According to Charlie Bolden
-Bolden "Dava and I are going to leave Dave [Radzanowski] here to take care of Robert [Lightfoot]" #NASA
- NASA internal Town Hall: Lightfoot: "We need to show that we can transition our agency and not miss a beat"
- Bolden gave @DavaExplorer the #NASA Distinguished Service Medal today
- Town Hall: Bolden talking about @DavaExplorer coming to the A Suite said "we did OK before - but she brought some pizazz" 1/2
- But Bolden made no mention of @LoriGarver and how she kept him out of trouble for 6 years 2/2
- Town Hall: Bolden: "My first two years were horrible. I thought I just sucked as the #NASA Administrator"
- Town Hall: Bolden: "To put it bluntly I wasn't comfortable."
- Town Hall: Bolden: "I still come to work each day scared about what is going to happen that day"
- Town Hall: Bolden: "We brought Mike French and David Weaver over. Mike French encouraged me to do my job."
- Town Hall: Bolden: "French - You're the NASA Administrator & do not have to sit back & just say yes. You can tell ppl what you want to do"
- Bolden presented the #NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Mike French today
- When asked at Town Hall if the new Administration will continue with SLS and used it to send humans to Mars Bolden said "yes".
- Bolden "When I came here in 2009 Constellation was a great idea - but it was an idea"
- Bolden "our entrepreneurial partners are really excited about what they are doing"
- Bolden "we have met those goals that we have established"
- Bolden tells NASA employees to "become thebest story teller that there is" in explaining to others what they do at #NASA
- Bolden: "if you take care of your people they will take care of you" #NASA
- Bolden: "Don't forget about the other people who make it possible for you to do what you do."
- Lightfoot noted that a kid sent him a Xmas card - sat next to him on a plane while Lightfoot showed him a #NASA powerpoint presentation

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