Only the heart can show compassion and healing. NASA is subject to a myriad of laws and rules related to discrimination, equal opportunity and diversity management. I am very pleased with the progress we have made at Dryden to be inclusive and to secure the most highly qualified flight research team from all parts of America. I am most pleased about and proud of the attitudes I see at Dryden. People of every race, age, gender and ethnicity populate all levels of Dryden and are judged on their contributions to the Dryden mission alone.
People seek to resolve problems among themselves at the lowest possible levels.
I am really pleased at the initiatives Dryden staff members are making in outreach activities to the Hawaiian people, to the tribal nations across our land and most recently to inner city schools in Los Angeles. Dryden staff does these things not because it has to, but because it wants to. Surely these are attitudes of the heart. NASA Dryden can do more than to obey the law. It can use the talented people here and the important and inspirational mission of NASA to draw young people's interest to stay in school and striving to learn those things that will carry their generation of Americans to the planets and to the stars.