When I worked at Occidental Petroleum, I got involved with offshore oil rigs off the coast of Scotland. I was assigned to work with an engineering firm that did a lot of the design work for these big rigs. The president was a young man named Ed Lowry. He kept quite a number of marine engineers on the payroll. He did something most unconventional. When a new project came in and he did not have all the answers, he called together secretaries, accounting personnel, human resources people and everyone except the engineers. He asked them to come up with solutions. They always came up with better solutions than the engineers. There is a saying in English that applies here:
"From out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom."
Elena is a doctor
and not an aerospace engineer. She looked at all the plans to send humans back
to the moon and Mars. She saw one huge problem. She pointed out that when
pioneers came West in the US there were forts and other stations where pioneers
could get supplies, medical care, and repairs. She commented that such a thing
was needed in space. Sure enough, NASA agreed with her belatedly. They hired
Lockheed Martin to build the Lunar Gateway. Here is a fascinating video on the
subject:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5ZizaYZPo
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