NASA is an organization that has scientists and engineers on its payroll. NASA also contracts work out to aerospace companies; and, they employ scientists and engineers as well as tradesmen. I assure you, it is always the scientists and engineers that design NASA's hardware and flight characteristics. The organization is quite inert without its PEOPLE.
And who said I wanted to impress you?
Ditto. We are conversing about your misguided notions.
Intelligence is the ability to absorb, assimilate and retain information and knowledge...Not being able to learn spelling and grammar...is an indication of lesser intelligence capability.
You have included only a part of the definition. From Merriam:
...the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria...
Spelling is RULE based and somewhat arbitrary rules at that. Intelligence is the ability to make correct observations and process knowledge into solutions.
I know how many times I had to make custom cutting tools in 8 years as a machinist because some brilliant engineer drew something on paper that no standard cutting tool made would do.
None of the machines and cutters you use came from RULE based rote activity. They all came from problem solving "outside of the box". This is one of the things intelligence does: Solves problems by creating new machines, processes, and materials. Spelling and grammar have NEVER participated in that effort. They are used to document the new stuff "after the fact". The documentation is usually edited for public dissemination by someone other than the original author. (We used to call those secretary pools.)
I am somewhat familiar with machinists. All I have met are brilliant, high on the IQ scale. Their problem solving aptitude is usually stunning. None of them got to where they are because they spell well or keep their grammar in order. They are brilliant problem solvers.
Bravo to your entire post!