Space’s new dress code

Today’s successful splashdown of the Space X Dragon (its mission to resupply the International Space Station complete) is more than the beginning of the transfer of a space program from government to private business, it’s the transfer from one generation to the next.

Check out this view of Space X “mission control,” lifted from a YouTube video when the spacecraft undocked from the space station.

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And this video of Space X employees when it lifted off last week…

Meanwhile, at NASA’s mission control…

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Let the word go forth to an old generation of office managers: You can do great things wearing a T-shirt and jeans.