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says...
Yes, get rid of the do-nothing management types,

As much as this engineer hates to admit it, for large, complex projects,
good management is more important than good engineering. (Personally,
I'm working in a company with less than 20 people for just this reason.)


There is a LOT of tribal knowledge in this field.

If so, the engineers aren't doing their job correctly. (And the
management is at fault for not correcting this problem.)


DL The Shuttle program, compared to a rational program, is overmanned by at *least* an order
DL of magnitude.
Lobotomizing your industry
is not a good idea if you want the capability to continue, much less
improve.

If the existing industry has a track record of wildly overspending and
under-delivering, not really achieving any useful results (has ISS
achieved anything that Skylab and MIR didn't already demonstrate?), why
would we want that capability to continue?
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier