Re:Engineering for the Long Haul, the Nasa Way
by oso2k on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:44PM
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Kennedy is a different kind of facility, even from some of the other NASA Centers. There's a huge emphasis on compatibility of launch & ground systems. And, you're right about bureaucrats and you could even extend it to lobbyists.
Almost all of the real engineering done by "NASA" at KSC is done by government contractors. The actual NASA employee pool had a higher than usual proportion of lazy and incompetent members because it's virtually impossible to terminate a federal government employee. The rest were hard core bureaucrats who spent most of their time jockeying for bigger offices, more responsibility, etc.