I hesitate to badmouth the agency because it has so many sincere talented people working there, but also, NASA management as a whole has been dogshit since about the 1980s. Like real dogshit, “should be in prison” type of thing. Read about the Challenger disaster investigations, things like people warning that the launch was unsafe and shouldn’t continue, and being told to “Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat.”
I hesitate to badmouth the agency because it has so many sincere talented people working there, but also, NASA management as a whole has been dogshit since about the 1980s. Like real dogshit, “should be in prison” type of thing. Read about the Challenger disaster investigations, things like people warning that the launch was unsafe and shouldn’t continue, and being told to “Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat.”