{"id":74910,"date":"2018-01-03T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/from-flags-and-footprints-to-having-a-routine-presence-in-space"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:03:03","slug":"from-flags-and-footprints-to-having-a-routine-presence-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/from-flags-and-footprints-to-having-a-routine-presence-in-space","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018flags and footprints\u2019 to having a routine presence in space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Next, the technology maturation process, unfolds in a linear fashion with the ultimate objective of transitioning to the NASA program that established the requirement. This process sacrifices science and the ability to iterate fast<\/a>; does not incentivize providers to develop affordable and systematic capabilities<\/a>, and the consideration of economic intelligence and market pull is anything but strategic (engagement model with industry is secondary, i.e \u201cwork for hire\u201d contracts, and commercialization is serendipitous). As the sole customer, NASA\/the government needs to maintain the unique infrastructure needed for these missions and maintains large per mission costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While science missions are largely competitive and outcome focused, human missions start by establishing a destination \u2014 the political choice of Moon or Mars \u2014 often becoming a solution in search of a problem. Since the Apollo era, the overall result of this \u201cswing\u201d approach has basically resulted in \u201cgrounding\u201d the human space program<\/a>, negatively affecting the morale of the working force, and making many feel that it is little more than a job welfare program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From an HR perspective, NASA, like any other government organization, is a great example of Peter\u2019s principle, structured and incentivized by the slogan \u201cthe hierarchy needs to be preserved by all costs\u201d, frequently leading to the alienation or outright removal of highly competent people focused on problem solving and with a desire of seeing accelerated progress.<\/p>\n

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Next, the technology maturation process, unfolds in a linear fashion with the ultimate objective of transitioning to the NASA program that established the requirement. This process sacrifices science and the ability to iterate fast; does not incentivize providers to develop affordable and systematic capabilities, and the consideration of economic intelligence and market pull is anything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,47,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-neuroscience","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75026,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74910\/revisions\/75026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}