NASA might be focusing on diversity at the expense of competence
Pretty much like everything in society today. Did you see the Macy’s Day parade? Diversity on parade would have been a better name.
Imagine if NASA was woke in 1958. We would not even have ever launched a rocketsuccessfully and never would have made it to the moon.
Von Braun would have never been allowed even though he was a genius.
No, this is a money thing. NASA has to launch Artemis before Starship did it’s orbital or the entire program could be cut for cost savings. Boeing has too much money tied up into it. NASA threw out all of the safety standards just to get the rocket to launch. The lost of some cubesats is a minor thing.
It just sucks for Les Johnson the primary investigator, this was supposed to be his retirement capstone, now they have to build another one.
He is good people from down in Huntsville. There are a bunch of smart rednecks who can do high-end math down there.