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"The average age the night we had splashdown (Apollo 11) was 28. When Space Shuttle Atlantis left Earth on May 11, 2009, the average NASA civil servant's age wa
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"The average age the night we had splashdown (Apollo 11) was 28. When Space Shuttle Atlantis left Earth on May 11, 2009, the average NASA civil servant's age was 47." [1]
There were risk takers, now they are protecting their ability to pay for 2 kids to go to Ivy League. Who can blame them?
[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a4288/4318625/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a4288/4318625/