At an all-hands meeting on Friday September 5, Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy found himself on the defensive regarding former Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s recent comments about NASA’s failure to move quickly enough to “beat” China back to the Moon. This part of Duffy’s response was telling, regarding current NASA culture: “Sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress.”
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