Golden who was actively and successfully in many ways working to transform nasa. I had previous to that worked for a grassroots organization. That was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of astronauts and nasa had sort of lost. Its way i think after the shuttle accidents when they didnt. Have the ability to get more people into space for lower costs more reliably. That was the goal of the shuttle. So coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration. I thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president elect obama happened to agree. So it says my quest because its a memoir, but its a lot of peoples quest for decades and thats why i wrote the book. Well, lets open that up for a minute. You say that nasa had lost its way. I mean thats sort of a big statement. What do you mean by that . And how did that happen . You know, were talking primarily here about human spaceflight at na
World of University Presses. John sharer is the director of the university of North Carolina, press hell be our guest unc press is celebrating. Its 100th anniversary. But first some news from the publishing world. Well the publisher simon and schuster is currently in the midst of an unusual free book giveaway. Its an effort to help bridge the growing divides facing america today. The book publisher is giving away the digital audiobook and ebook editions of amanda. Ripleys book high conflict why we get trapped and how we get out and anna sales. Lets talk about the hard things the lifechanging conversations that connect us. In discussing this giveaway simon and schuster ceo. Jonathan karp said quote perhaps if we all get a little bit better at having those Difficult Conversations will begin to find more common ground. He added that the Supreme Court decision on roe versus wade along with debates on guns the 2020 election, january 6th Climate Change and immigration were on his mind as wel
Transformed . Thanks chris. Its a great to be here with you too. I have been at nasa in the 1990s working under the nasa administrator at the time dan golden who was actively and successfully in many ways working to transform nasa. I had previous to that worked for a grassroots organization. That was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of astronauts and nasa had sort of lost. Its way i think after the shuttle accidents when they didnt. Have the ability to get more people into space for lower costs more reliably. That was the goal of the shuttle. So coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration. I thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president elect obama happened to agree. So it says my quest because its a memoir, but its a lot of peoples quest for decades and thats why i wrote the book. Well, lets open that up for a minute. You say that nasa had lost its way. I mean
Commissioner i was interested in the partnership with the nonprofit based developer can someone comment from the staff comment open that option why is it not on the table. Should not be on the table . Good afternoon sally deputy director. Yes. That was one of the alternative options in front of of us. One end of the spectrum would be a traditionally Affordable Housing project serving the low income like we do with your standard this is developed and used tax credits with the low income tier. We looked at how to serve the moderate income folks and the tax credits are not a feasible tool. Those are the two ends of the spectrum and the financing tool and then but we had the moderate protect intent of the organization pa and how do you make that work and you make that work internally within the project. So this part of our analysis yes, but as you saw from our presentation were recommending the moderate approach for the income tier approach is that a way to say the staff concluded the part
People in the audience. We have a couple of folks from our officer we have our architects and engineers so everybody has turned pr as you know block 7 thats the team up there. Theyve obviously it works now. Beautiful. Block 7 is bounded by 4 and third street and mission bay boulevard. This first image is an aerial view from the northeast that shows the model that you saw and youve looked at it as weve passed it around. I wanted to point out the building is a lot of the buildings thats arranged around a larger Central Court yard. This is a view from the southwest looking at the building between the future family house this will be a landscape view of mid block passage. I have a few diagrams this one shes how transit rich this site is. Youll see the third street and Mission Shuttle and the diagram shows the stocks and the 22 is going to be relocated and its turn around will be in front of our building. Were about a 5 minute block from trans station. Its a good access to get around the ne