Bureaucracy

Has NASA become an unwieldy bureaucracy? There's no doubt that floundering budgets over the past two decades have taken their toll but can NASA continue with its current oppressive government culture? This story is about how a group of NASA engineers (both current and retired) are using their free time to develop an alternative system to NASA's newest "platform" that is supposed to take us back to the Moon. Why a parallel project that isn't officially supported? Because they believe that the official project is doomed and are afraid to speak out for fear of being terminated. Isn't that what happened to both Challenger and Columbia? Engineers were too afraid to speak out about problems within the shuttle program, resulting in tragedy and disaster. NASA's culture isn't about exploration anymore, its just another government job.