The Setting

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Where do arguments about space contracts and average rockets launch prices take place? NASA's headquarters in Washington D.C. is the answer. Take a read below to get a feel for the setting of a higher end administrator in NASA. Did you feel like you were walking in the headquarters? Let me know below.

NASA's headquarters is a bustle of activity constantly. People in and out, new interns, old leaders, stuffy holdouts and new fresh innovators. There are older rooms, the leftovers of Apollo's era, and brand new board rooms designed for the ground up for new technology. That's where the important meetings take place. With the smell of coffee in the air, and everywhere for that matter, you start to learn of the work environment you just entered, almost completely formal, yet filled with ingenuity and problem solving. Engineers run the place, but their are still leaders, media consultants, and new faces running around. Outside the window you see the rest of Washington D.C. on the horizon, along with NASA TV in the other building, along with James Webb Auditorium. Phones are heard every once in a while, since it is an administrative building, but any important phone calls take place in the office around the building. You might run into the coffee boy, or the leader of a branch of NASA itself, depending on which part of the building you are in. Most likely if you are in here, you are showing an important presentation, an executive official, or a higher up in NASA itself, not just a run of the mill engineer in one of the offices around the country, or at the launch pads. The NASA logo seems to be a sign of pride in this place, and it should be, you are in the headquarters of the leading space agency in the world, and one who spends billions of dollars a year on advancing the aerospace industry and exploring space.