It's official, I now have "shill" level access to Cape Canaveral. Until today I had no greater access to NASA or Cape Canaveral than any other regular citizen. Occasionally I was accepted for behind the scenes tours as part of NASA Socials, but anyone with a twitter or YouTube account could do the same and I know of at least one former GLP'er who has been highly critical of NASA for years and was able to get in under the same NASA Social program. And to be clear, that program did not pay me a penny or even cover the cost of lunch, it was just an opportunity to see things behind the scenes.

As of today, I now have access behind the security gates at Cape Canaveral. Some of you might remember when I mentioned months ago that I was getting a new position involved with NASA. That still isn't finalized, everything was held up by the SpaceX crew capsule explosion during an abort motor test a couple months ago. I don't have any inside info on it, but it did hold things up quite a bit.


Progress is now being made though I can't really say what my new position is. All I will say is that it has to do with preparing experiments to fly to the International Space Station. Although it's not finalized yet, I have gone through a background check and was granted a temporary badge onto the base today which is good for the next few months while a few other things are finalized. There's actually a couple different things going on behind the scenes at the same time, but it's all good.