3 ms·
The average age of NASA engineers during the Apollo missions, particularly during Apollo 11, was around 28 years old
by dmitrygr 2y ago
The average age of NASA engineers during the Apollo missions, particularly during Apollo 11, was around 28 years old
- 4ndrewl 2y agoThey were the cream of a very small crop though, not today's bitcoin grifters.
- mlinhares 2y agoYeah, because all the work the DOGE folks have done so far definitely aligns with what the people at NASA were doing back then.
- bilbo0s 2y agoI don't know? I agree that getting 3 guys to the moon seems much harder than running a nation into the ground. That said, isn't that a reason that you'd want younger people in DOGE than in the Apollo program? All you have to do to run a nation into the ground is blow everything up. It's not a terribly complicated task. The DOGE employees being younger wouldn't seem, to me, to meaningfully restrict their ability to screw up everything. Point of fact is, if you want to run a nation into the ground, being younger could actually be viewed as a qualification. I wouldn't think you'd want people who understand too well what they're doing.
- mlinhares 2y agoTrue, hadn’t considered it from this angle.
- karaterobot 2y agoI also don't think most people are complaining about his age, as much as his appointment without qualifications in writing policy, and just in general the fact that regulations are being rewritten by someone whose only qualification is the ability to use an AI program. The Apollo engineers went to school for engineering, and were hired because they were good at the jobs they were being asked to do.