Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
And despite this it’s still quite competitive and has super high requirements still from what I saw. Not that it’s a bad thing but if you meet those high requirements you can get a much better job elsewhere
Precisely. If you are that compelling a candidate, there are other industries who are usually willing to pay more for the same set of skills.