Did the American education system did such a poor job at promoting science that "Millennials" were less interested in becoming astronauts?

[JakeWIlls92]

Congrats to them but I find it sad that NASA doesn't have one single astronaut that has been born in the 90s yet!

There is an Arab one! Apparently countries like the UAE and China have done a better job at getting young people interested in science and technology.

Or was it all by design? The American government wanted Millennials and Gen Z to be "dumbed down"?

There seems to be an effort by the American government to get the next generation of American youth excited to become astronauts.

Is this the American government going "Oh crap we screwed up so better go all in with the next generation!"?

 

[daveman]

Maybe they can get illegals to be astronauts.

 

[occupied]

Being an astronaut requires a person that is a world class optimist. Now look at the current sci-fi. It's one miserable dystopia after another. Astronauts are most often depicted as the victim of space disaster or alien monsters.