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Can astronaut's video change NASA bureaucracy?

NPR: A report by astronaut Andrew Thomas on whether NASA is stifling innovation has made its way to YouTube as a satirical fictional case study of an engineer trying to get her ideas taken seriously by senior management. The video is generating a lot of discussion both within NASA and the larger space community. The script mimics a recent discussion within NASA over whether the Ares I rocket is still the right launch vehicle for replacing the space shuttle.

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