NASA Uses Old People To Plot A Space Future For Young People
NASA Advisory Council (NAC) group photograph, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Keith’s note: Will someone please explain how a bunch of older folks (all well-intentioned, to be sure) on the NASA Advisory Council are expected to have clear knowledge of what the Artemis Generation actually wants their future in space to be? Based on these official photos, there is no one on the NAC who is apparently under 50. Many are over 60, several are well over 70. Two are over 80. The youngest of them will be in their 60s if/when we land on Mars. Just sayin’ Oh yes I am 68.
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NASA isn’t going to have a big say in the future of manned space. Their time is passing like some obsolete bureaucratic dinosaur. SpaceX will be the primary shaper of the colonization of the solar system in the decades to come. Starship is the Conestoga wagon that will move people and goods off of Earth and into the high frontier.
I think Vagabond is right. I’m 69, have been with NASA 43 years; I was 25 when I started with NASA. At the pace NASA is moving today I don’t think they will take us anywhere. Their systems like Orion and SLS are archaic and unaffordable. They are unsafe if they are only flown once every several years. I have zero confidence in NASA’s capabilities today. Space X is definitely showing the world how to pick up the pace. Its too bad NASA does not learn from them.
I think its funny that in this case NASA wants “old people” determining the future. Ageism, age discrimination, is alive and well in NASA. Within NASA once you reach age 45 they no longer want your input at all. Age 50, 55, they just want you to leave.