I have friends at NASA. It might be too late to ever be great again. It’s a bureaucracy riddled with political correctness, global warming hype, and mandatory “gay sensitivity” classes for employees. One guy I know is a physicist, a genius, he longs with all his heart to do some real science, but it’s just not allowed.
(Also note original article 1999.)
NASA has succombed to PC. Maybe it will fade away, but something new may rise from the ashes.
But you never know.