NASA's managerial culture is (in)famous for all the wrong reasons - see the Challenger and Columbia crashes [1][2]. It appears that every once in a while they crash a major vehicle, external pressure gives some control back to technical authorities, but over time they seem to fall back into the same bad habits. Depending on when you were there, it would be interesting to see if post-Columbia culture has "reverted to the mean".

Thinking back to Boeing's recent 737Max issues, I wonder how much managerial exchange is there between the two Aerospace organizations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Flawe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Accident_Investigatio...