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Accountability Police
Unlike some of our favourite fictional universes, NASA is looking to change its culture through asking for more accountability from its managers. It's hard to figure out how this stacks up against the recent report that the very middle-managers they want to change don't want to voice their dissent in the way the place is run. One would think that logically they are on a collision course. My take on this is that NASA wants to be able to hold culpable specific people for certain fuck-ups. Conversely, some people don't want the blame pinned on them so they feel they don't want to speak up when something with a heavy whiff of bullshit makes its way through the corridors of NASA. Clearly there's a deeper issue in there that they have not addressed.
So while this notion of accountability they are pushing in the article looks good as a PR piece, I would imagine it is going to exacerbate some of the deeper issues stemming from the bureaucratic nature of NASA.

Then there's this guy...
The oldest person working has called it quits.
As Dave Brew wryly notes, in the future we will have work-for-the-pension-schemes.

- Art Neuro