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How I got sacked by Kamala Harris

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  This is the story of my experience as an advisor to the National Space Council under Vice President Mike Pence and Vice President Kamala Harris and how the latter gave me the sack except she probably didn't but somebody else did in her name because, as far as I can tell, the VP knows virtually nothing about space exploration nor seems to want to learn.  Anyway, first up: My experience with National Space Council Chairman - VP Mike Pence who loved space and wanted to do what he could to help reach our space goals - including defining them. One day in 2017, a representative of Vice President Mike Pence asked me to be on the National Space Council as an advisor on something called the Users Advisory Group (UAG). That sounded interesting. "What are my duties?" I asked. "Give advice about space and stuff," came the answer. Prodigious.  The first NSC meeting that I attended was in 2018 at Kennedy Space Center. When I met Mike Pence, I gave him an autographed