Earky on NASA gained enormous prestige. Therefore, it became necessary to share that prestige with the scientifically inept portion of our society. NASA is rapidly becoming a showcase for the hiring of minorities and women. Its performance will bear an inverse relation to the number of the latter hired.
Hispanics and blacks have never liked the space program, they figure a dollar spent on NASA means one less dollar spent on social programs for them. And young white people are heavy into and brainwashed by the "green BS" being promoted today, not space exploration. The are more interested in America being as green as possible, they fall for that Obama BS. They are regressing from the industrial age to the agricultural age.