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NASA's talent pool shallow, studies say

Agency fails to attract best young scientists

BY BILL THEOBALD
FLORIDA TODAY

WASHINGTON - When NASA was in its moon-landing heyday, the space agency had
36,000 employees and many of the best young scientific minds in the country -- some in
key leadership positions.

Now, when the agency is being asked to return man to the moon and head on to Mars, it
has fewer than half that number of employees and is not attracting enough of the best and
brightest college graduates, according to two recent reports that examined NASA's work
force needs.

Authors of those reports, a NASA administrator and a representative of its unionized
engineers, agreed during a House Science committee hearing Thursday that the agency
needs to do more to attract young scientists and retrain its existing workers.

But they disagreed -- sometimes harshly -- about the cause of NASA work force problems
and how to solve them.

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