<VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)

[Ron]

Sounds logical as NASA is federally funded and since the administration is 
anti-scientific, funding will be cut.
RonH

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Subject: Re: <VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)


> We here at NASA Langley are facing massive RIF's (reduction in force) in 
> the near future.  I've been in constant fear of losing my job almost this 
> entire year and next should be worse.  Did the gentleman from NASA mention 
> THAT to the children?  If you want to inspire kids to be engineers don't 
> show them models of the shuttle (which in spite of how much I admire it is 
> NOT the best idea to ever come out of NASA) but instead show them they'll 
> have some kind of job security.  Who wants a job where you're constantly 
> afraid you're going to lose it?  Become a lawyer, they're always busy.
>
> mike
>
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> Took my kids to the Marshfield Days (Marshfield Missouri) last weekend, 
> NASA
> was there with a scaled model of the shuttle and lots of other interesting
> things.  While I was talking to the gentleman from NASA he mentioned that
> the main reason that they do this is to inspire kids to take math and
> science.  They are having a hard time getting Engineers and Scientist 
> these
> days.  They picked going to Marshfield because it is the birth place of
> Edwin P. Hubble.
>
> Keith Hammett
> M.E. University of Missouri - Rolla 2000
>
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