As one who worked at NASA for 35 years I can agree with this engineer. NASA is so risk adverse that it takes a long time to go from first thought to actual hardware. Some of our employees were given free rein and they produced. Way too many meetings, not enough work.
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP JUST DROPPED THE HAMMER ON THE IRS 🇺🇸🔥
In the Oval Office, he just declared TOTAL WAR on the federal income tax.
The plan: RIP OUT the income tax system that has crushed American families since 1913… and replace it with tariffs paid by OTHER countries.
The IRS as we know it? DONE.
The American worker? Finally WINS.
This is the most aggressive tax reset in over a century. The media is already scrambling to bury it.
If this actually happens, everything changes.
Are you ready? Drop a 🔥 if you want the IRS GONE.
🚨BREAKING: A MASSIVE group of House Republicans, led by firebrand Rep. Brandon Gill, just DROPPED A BOMBSHELL letter DEMANDING Mitch McConnell RELEASE THE SAVE ACT from the Senate Rules Committee and bring it straight to the floor for a vote!
PASS THE SAVE ACT!
Do you firmly support this?
A. Huge Yes
B. No
IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!
The FBI just helped raid a scam compound in Ghana.
Rows of laptops preying on Americans. 130+ arrested or detained. 300+ devices seized.
Kash Patel says the global campaign has seized $17 BILLION.
Scammers who target our parents and grandparents, you're next.
I voted for this.
TWO MASSIVE STUDIES LINK COVID VACCINATION TO HIGHER RISK OF 7 MAJOR CANCERS
Prostate: +69%
Bladder: +62%
Breast: +54%
Lung: +53%
Colon: +35%
Stomach: +34%
Thyroid: +35%
mRNA shots will go down in history as one of the LARGEST carcinogenic exposures ever recorded.
While far left WA State leaders passed record tax increases, they failed to investigate daycares with no children receiving taxpayer funds according to The Center Square. This is despite the issue being covered heavily in media.
It was reported earlier this year that Governor Ferguson's Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) had an un-auditable $416 MILLION of taxpayer funds, according to State Auditor Pat McCarthy (D). Taxpayer funded daycare fraud is being exposed nationwide.
And don't forget about the known fraud, waste, and abuse:
A squandered $15 BILLION surplus, the largest tax increases and spending spree in state history in back-to-back years (SB 5167 in 2025 & SB 5998 in 2026), $1.17 BILLION in missing COVID money, $646 MILLION of unemployment money being stolen by Nigerian scammers, $340 MILLION going to non-citizens, and so much more.
Imagine what these BILLIONS alone could have paid for.
It's well past time for state government to be responsible and accountable with your money.
#UnaccountableWA #UnaffordableWA #ReinstateAccountability #waleg
All those years ago, JFK knew. And he said it out loud. No wonder he was assassinated. Listen to this speech. He lays it out precisely & it is exactly what we are still facing today.
“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.”
Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy.
This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself.
And then he said the quiet part out loud:
“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
Sound familiar?