Years ago, I worked at NASA as a structural engineer. I encountered a great deal of what I would call "fraud". Engineers that simply could not and would not do the work given to them. Managers that hired their friends and then allowed them to do nothing. Managers that cannot handle simple technical tasks and cannot even handle employee reviews.
I was repeatedly moved to groups where the engineers failed to complete fundamental engineering tasks. I was compelled to work extreme hours to complete those tasks. I saw three engineering "systems" on the Orion that went through milestones (PDR) with literally no mathematical bases. One was completely made up, one was a CAD model copy of a previous system that simply did not work as implemented, and the third seemed wholly made up as well.
This was possible due to a number of reasons. The contractor and subcontractor system at NASA is the primary problem, but the laws that prevent White males from having standing in court to be challenge their terminations and NASA's refusal to grant ethics protections and whistleblower status to White male subcontractors is another big reason.
NASA and its contractors and subcontractors maintain entirely separate sets of policies wrt ethics, hiring, terminations, etc for White male engineers. These policies destroy the careers of those engineers and are not only fundamentally immoral, they've greatly hampered the space program.
Everything i've said here and everything said in the video was validated by a NASA OIG investigation. Not NASA, not Lockheed Martin, nor my subcontractor denied anything.
These issues are why it took us around three years to launch a man into space for Mercury and Gemini, seven years for Apollo, six years for SpaceX, 10 years for Starliner, and yet Orion hasn't launched a man into space in 19 years despite funding that is far more than any previous capsule other than Apollo.
The video is long, but it lays out these items. I would gladly answer any questions.
by jfoxworth