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It's always a lead into cutting NASA spending so remind them that it's not a zero sum thing, cutting NASA's budget isn't going to cause lower taxes, higher spending on $THINGS_SHE_PREFERS, or a fatter personal wallet, it'll just be cutting NASA's budget.
Why wouldn't it mean those things? That's the essential nature of budgeting.
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Yep. I love space and science, but after working with NASA for a while, you see some of the problems. NIH syndrome is a huge problem, especially between GSFC and JPL. There are incompetent engineers who will have a well paying job at NASA for life. And then there the passionate, brilliant scientists and engineers the that dream and make it all work. A reduction in force of dead weight would go a long way but it will…
From what I hear the original "startup" NASA from the 60s was a no deadweight organization that efficiently cranked out world class space flight. That it since followed the path of every other monopoly bureaucracy was of course unavoidable.
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Yep. I love space and science, but after working with NASA for a while, you see some of the problems. NIH syndrome is a huge problem, especially between GSFC and JPL. There are incompetent engineers who will have a well paying job at NASA for life. And then there the passionate, brilliant scientists and engineers the that dream and make it all work. A reduction in force of dead weight would go a long way but it will…
From what I hear the original "startup" NASA from the 60s was a no deadweight organization that efficiently cranked out world class space flight. That it since followed the path of every other monopoly bureaucracy was of course unavoidable.
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Yep. I love space and science, but after working with NASA for a while, you see some of the problems. NIH syndrome is a huge problem, especially between GSFC and JPL. There are incompetent engineers who will have a well paying job at NASA for life. And then there the passionate, brilliant scientists and engineers the that dream and make it all work. A reduction in force of dead weight would go a long way but it will…
From what I hear the original "startup" NASA from the 60s was a no deadweight organization that efficiently cranked out world class space flight. That it since followed the path of every other monopoly bureaucracy was of course unavoidable.
This is not really true, but you are taking it as axiomatic.
They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro.
They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on.
Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work!
I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
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The rest of us have to compete in a free market for our skills. Why not doctors? I agree that the undergrad requirement is absurd. But it is also just another part of the system that increases entry-barriers and leads to all of these problems, but makes the field more lucrative for a big segment of those who get through it.
What an utterly contentless response (and no, you're not in a free market). Based on your other comments on this post, I would recommend you spend some time learning about the system you're attempting to criticize.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...
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Yep. I love space and science, but after working with NASA for a while, you see some of the problems. NIH syndrome is a huge problem, especially between GSFC and JPL. There are incompetent engineers who will have a well paying job at NASA for life. And then there the passionate, brilliant scientists and engineers the that dream and make it all work. A reduction in force of dead weight would go a long way but it will…
From what I hear the original "startup" NASA from the 60s was a no deadweight organization that efficiently cranked out world class space flight. That it since followed the path of every other monopoly bureaucracy was of course unavoidable.
Hubble is back but nasa.gov is black. A blank black page. All because their web devs wanted (or were pushed into using) some crap front-end lib that has no fall-back for no javascript. nasa.gov's accessibility is absolutely terrible for a government website.
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work! I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!