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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of them? There is a difference between best agency and best agency of all the horrible federal agencies.[/quote]

I'll disagree with you.  After 30 years at NASA, I will say that it is a great place to work.  Morale is high at NASA and we are productive and enjoy our employment.  I know many who have left NASA over the years, including those who left to work in private industry and the struggled to find jobs to return to NASA.  [/quote]

Why do you think that is? Is it because NASA by nature, has clearly defined goals and success indicators? For most fed agencies, success is hard to visualize. [/quote]

About NASA, I read The Thin Book of Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success by 
Sue Annis Hammond and Andrea B. Mayfield. The book uses NASA's tragic accidents and Enron's bankruptcy as examples of the price of not having open, constructive dialogue.

Has NASA possibly improved their culture? If so, how have they improved? Does NASA really do anything anymore? [/quote]

I'm the NASA employee.  In my 30 years, I have not actually witnessed the lack of open constructive communication that you or that book cite, so I have no idea where the authors got the information.  As far as I am aware, NASA has won the award for best large agency in the federal government 9 of the last 10 years.  In addition, for the employee morale and satisfaction survey, NASA consistently has one of the best response rates of any federal agency responding to the survey, so it a pretty strong indicator that there is a lot of employee opinion that is weighed in that rating.

As for if NASA does anything anymore, yes, NASA is still one of the largest technology innovators.  There are many innovations that are and have been created at NASA that ends up later being implemented on the free market and becoming commonplace technology adaptations.  Additionally, NASA Earth satellites and monitoring systems are used to help monitor and track Earth weather formations.  NASA satellites are used to track hurricanes, warn areas that have monsoons, hurricanes, and other weather formations heading their way.  They've been used for disaster recovery after natural disaster.

I know that this is a Wikipedia page and not a real source, but this page gives you an idea of some of the many innovations created at NASA that have made their way into everyday life:
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies[/url]

In addition NASA science is made available to many other companies out there.  For example, solar research from NASA is used to help the solar power industry.  Satellite imagery is used to help find and map items in deep water.  In fact, I remember that NASA satellite imagery was critical for finding and repairing the breached floodwall that was underwater.  Without the imagery, the Army Corp of Engineers would have taking a lot longer to find, diagnose and start designing the repairs of the floodwall.  [/quote]

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