@ORAC -an excellent article! Though I am an American and rather proud of our leadership in space exploration, your link is, as you warned, completely sobering. It's not just NASA suffering from the nonsense of DEI and suckling the "Big Gummint" teat. This fine and glorious nation is being driven to its knees by such idiocy. We have had a good run; it is time to reformulate our policies if we are ever to regain the respect and admiration of the world.
- Ed