NASA employees are free to share with the public anything that has previously been shared with the public by NASA headquarters. 🤔

If NASA employees see something in the data that was not revealed publicly, they are not free to share that.



NASA Guidelines for Personal Use of Social Media (PDF): nasa.gov

Sorry, Carl. NASA would not want you to reveal that.

(If Carl worked at NASA and wanted to share his own observations, would the government program allow that?)



NASA has military-type rules on what its employees are allowed to say to the public.

They are told to:

Prevent the "release of classified information to the media."

"Protect non-public information."


Look how restrictive they are.... If employees speak to the public about their work:

"employees shall notify their immediate supervisor and coordinate with their public affairs office in advance of interviews whenever possible, or immediately thereafter, and are encouraged, to the maximum extent practicable, to have a public affairs officer present during interviews. If public affairs officers are present, their role will be to attest to the content of the interview, support the interviewee, and provide post-interview follow up with the media as necessary."

Do you ever see NASA employees posting on their personal blogs or social media their opinions about what they see in the moon programs? Only a handful of officers, who carefully choose their words, are given media coverage.