Career NASA officials were seen looking mighty freaked out during a recent town hall event about the agency's dicy future. As Ars Technica's Stephen Clark reports based on a livestream of the town hall — which was not advertised and has since been taken down — acting NASA administrator and career agency official Janet Petro looked like a hostage as she answered questions from staff about the agency's dire standing under president Donald Trump. The hostage-taker in this scenario appears to be NASA's appointed chief of staff Brian Hughes, who made his living as a consultant and politico in Florida until […]