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Not an avid space exploration follower, but I do seem to remember reading similar descriptions before, regarding a congress imposed "micromanagement" of some so

• adastra22 4y ago
  No doubt many, such as myself. I became disillusioned with NASA and gave up on my dream of becoming an astronaut, since it didn't seem like astronauts would be doing anything of value for decades. I went into tech startups instead, where the pay is significantly better. But of those more on the aerospace side, with less transferable skill sets, leaving the industry isn't a clear-cut option. Many of them did move to SpaceX though. At the time that I left, I remember there being concern about the best and brightest SLS engineers getting lured away to work on Falcon 9. There was certainly a lot of churn in the late Constellation & early SLS days.