[MyOptic]

Like Galager replied when talking about the Preparation H commercials holding his hands out in front of him, if this is the problem, this isn’t the answer. I have worked in the bowels of the NASA beast for 7 years, and in this time I have seem waste, sloth and mindless bureaucratic nonsense that made my stint in the navy seem like a lesson in efficiency. What should take weeks takes literally years of power struggles, layers upon layers of management decisions, petty bickering and ineptitude being rewarded with promotions. I worked in a shop where cutting edge technology would allow us to perform a task in days, but due to management decisions, they “preferred” that we performed these jobs manually, and the project would take 1 to 2 years. The cost of the equipment would have been paid for with the price of 6 months of our labor. NASA was once a great entity, but after Apollo, it has degenerated into just another Government Hog at the public trough. I would love to see more manned explorations, just not run by NASA.

[narby]

NASA was once a great entity, but after Apollo, it has degenerated into just another Government Hog at the public trough. I would love to see more manned explorations, just not run by NASA.

I saw the same thing when I worked at NASA/JPL. And that was only a decade or so after Apollo.

I have optimisim though, that if given the right goal, and a thrashing from the commander in chief, that NASA might become something to be proud of again. I doubt it, but it might.

[LandofLincoln]

Thank you for being honest. There are very few on the inside who ever tell us what is inside. Not that we don't know.