On with a Zoom meeting of kids 11-15 years olds, watching the Mars landing "production"
After a while they started saying,
>"Why are they all girls?"
>"Aren't they too young to be in charge?", etc.
This was in response to the constant stream of 'diverse' people interviewed who were maybe not so very diverse: almost all very young, and very often female.

So, they were getting skeptical, then:
THERE WAS SOME FUCKING ROCK BAND doing a bad cover of bowie's Life on Mars
...and the kids started laughing.

NASA blew it.
Why pander like that?
Do they believe science/engineering interesting enough without packaging it like entertainment?