
Pioneering NASA official on aerospace industry: 'Bro-culture' is bad for business
CNN
Lori Garver spearheaded the NASA program that paved the way for SpaceX to return human spaceflight to the United States after a decade-long wait. In her new book and in a recent interview she reflects on that success, the controversial cast of characters driving this new space race, and the cultural issues that permeate the aerospace industry at large.
And the former NASA deputy administrator, when asked by CNN Business how SpaceX's future might play out, had a message for Elon Musk: Don't trip on your ego, adding that the perils and politics of spaceflight are already potential risks to the company's future.
In her new memoir, "Escaping Gravity," Garver wrote about her feelings watching the success of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the initiative that brought about the first privately owned human spacecraft that culminated in SpaceX's historic 2020 astronaut launch.