As I say in the book, that does-in the early days especially-tend to be boys. Science fiction inspired so many of the space leaders in the 1950s and ’60s, so it’s been a really important element of the science that has transpired in space since, and I think it continues to be inspiring to people. So that meant I could not only tell the story I wanted to tell, but also get it out within a shorter period of time than several years, which is typical for publishing. He’s a former agent, and so I went directly to him and didn’t use an agent.
Diversion Publishing is headed by Scott Waxman. That’s not going to be the book.” Fortunately they let me out of their contract, and in the meantime another agent that I had contacted had since gone into publishing. They wanted me to talk about UFOs and what did I know about aliens, and I’m like, “Oh, no. I actually got an agent right away, and after a month or so with that agent, I realized they were trying to push a book that was different than what I was writing. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with Lori Garver in Episode 522 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “Not all of NASA is yet changed, and there are many programs in the government that could benefit from some of this tough love.” “We have done this thing at NASA, they were able to embrace change, which is very hard in a government system,” she says. Garver’s proposal to partner with SpaceX was eventually adopted, saving taxpayers billions of dollars, but she says that a lot of hard work still needs to be done. I grew up wanting to walk on the moon.’ OK, but does the public owe you that? Not questions they were used to hearing, nor did they like to hear them.” They’re like, ‘We want to walk on the moon. “They don’t have any kind of background in public policy or economics, and they don’t really see why that matters. “People come to NASA who are engineers and scientists,” she says. Garver also describes an attitude of entitlement at NASA, with many in the organization being unwilling to ask hard questions about whether or not their costly programs serve the public interest. “I think they sold something that they thought someone else would buy, and that got their contracts flowing, and then no one wants to cancel contracts, because these are jobs in your district. “I just don’t believe that the people who designed those programs believed that they could do them within those amounts,” she says. Garver says that in many cases the people who promoted those programs knew that their budgets were unrealistic.
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