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NASA is lagging because of personnel? If by “personnel” includes incredibly, weak leadership, then I agree. NASA leadership seems to think NASA’s job is primar
by dgoodell 4y ago
NASA is lagging because of personnel? If by “personnel” includes incredibly, weak leadership, then I agree.
NASA leadership seems to think NASA’s job is primarily to set requirements and distribute funds to contractors and to avoid managing, building, or operating anything if it can possibly be avoided. They just want to pay someone to do something and slap a NASA logo on it and pat themselves on the back for their “achievement”.
- giantrobot 4y agoNASA has always set requirements and distributed funds. They've always used contractors. PIs on projects are usually full time university professors and their researchers are PhDs (or candidates) working for them. NASA is mostly setting goals, administering projects, and running the projects with contractors turning the wrenches.
- anon291 4y agoAnd that's great, but if we want to actually go to space en masse, it has to escape the confines of the laboratory.