I can offer some insight into that. That's the perception but the reality is more complicated and it depends.
A little over half of NASA's government workforce of ~18,000 are engineers of some kind according to data from OPM's FedScope. While you're correct that most (not all) hands on hardware are from contractors, NASA-proper is heavily involved in the design and engineering.
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I can offer some insight into that. That's the perception but the reality is more complicated and it depends.
A little over half of NASA's government workforce of ~18,000 are engineers of some kind according to data from OPM's FedScope. While you're correct that most (not all) hands on hardware are from contractors, NASA-proper is heavily involved in the design and engineering.
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