'Critical Space Theory': NASA Puts Diversity Before Merit...
If you were flying in a spaceship of the sort imagined by Robert Heinlein in Orphans of the Sky, flying through the vastness of space in a small lunar lander of the sort Michael Collins operated in the Apollo mission, or spending billions on even an unmanned space mission like the ones described in Robots in Space, who would you want managing the construction project and operating the vessel- the best engineer money and patriotism could find, or the diversity hire? The person there because of merit, or the person there because of skin color?
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— NASA (@NASA) June 16, 2021