:’) Thanks KoRn. The old-timers were chosen for their skills; the post-LBJ way is to choose based on utilizations of various demographic bands (a quota system).
Which is probably why our pace of innovation and expansion has moderated, compared to what it used to be. Combine that with risk aversion, and you get bureaucratic stagnation.... Our ‘space agency’ evolves into just another ‘government agency’, and that’s just terrible.
We need to get leadership back in command that will go for the best and the brightest, without regard to the PC crap. While there should be safety precautions, it needs to be understood that lives WILL be lost in the process of space exploration.