DEI order grounds NASA program to link undergraduates with mission scientists

We’re going to be on the back foot in science and education for at least the next decade.

H2O was a reasoned approach.

Building connections and including people by bringing them into the conversation and the work.

So many of us who are passionate about this work already love to rant about it and include our friends and family. They tag along to watch, and hear aerospace adventurers excitedly try to put words to new developments. Friends and family often get a front-row seat to the universe simply through social proximity.

This informedness and inspiration is concentrated in the culdesacs of best-friend networks (cliques). H2O opens up those cliques to people who might otherwise find it difficult to enter these social groups because they are native to a different one.

It's an attempt to add fresh perspectives to the social dynamics by giving new faces a way to be present so that through exposure they can learn and build experience and expertise. It's a foot in the door to see if people are quick learners or can otherwise find ways to become embedded in the social-professional dynamic.

It is an ameliorment to the best friends network that feeds it a more diverse stock of inputs and gives more groups of people a chance to enter the best friends network.