Re:It's official: NASA is a jobs program.
by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:13AM
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I like this analogy because it points out the critical factor that the people and the programs at NASA are overall fairly excellent. It's scope creep, being responsible to politics, and the inefficiencies of old, big organizations that's causing all of their problems.
People act like that there is some sort of big populist movement to hate all big government. That's true, but you can be a big fan of NASA, the people who work there, and the stuff they do and still understand they need to shut the doors and turn the lights off. NASA is simply trying to be too much to too many people with too little money. Hell, manned spaceflight is lucky if they have the same mission for ten years in a row. The situation has just spun completely out of control.
People act like that there is some sort of big populist movement to hate all big government. That's true, but you can be a big fan of NASA, the people who work there, and the stuff they do and still understand they need to shut the doors and turn the lights off. NASA is simply trying to be too much to too many people with too little money. Hell, manned spaceflight is lucky if they have the same mission for ten years in a row. The situation has just spun completely out of control.