Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Astronaut's video Lampoons NASA Bureaucracy

Astronaut Andrew Thomas has produced a video (with NASA's blessing) that depicts the frustrations of a young engineer working for a NASA contractor as she tries to introduce an innovative idea to a NASA project. The video is hilarious but sad, in that it is based on some real-life situations.

Working in the industry, I have seen some of this frustration myself, though I must also say that there are many dedicated people in management positions in the industry and at NASA who are open to innovation, and do their best in a sometimes difficult system.

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