I’m an engineer at NASA. I have been there for the decline of NASA over the past 20 years. NASA has gone from a space agency focused on R&D related to space exploration to a jobs program for people who can check the most minority status boxes (openly gay, Hispanic, one arm, females hired on the spot). NASA’s focus is now process (can hire more people who don’t have a clue as well as paperwork police - who don’t have a clue either). The focus is not good engineering. NASA is afraid of it’s own shadow as well. They won’t take any risks such as new vehicles to send people into space. “Safety is Our Number One Value” is now NASA’s slogan. The month of July (I believe) is set aside for “celebrating gay, transgendered, and bisexual peoples” with HUGE events scheduled weekly. The list goes on and on... Ugh!
It has become a welfare program for bureaucrats, and not a haven for engineers and risk takers like it used to be.
I think June is gay pride month...
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