Oh, hell no. There is no room, whatsoever, for "frat bros" at a freaking rocket company.
Edit: I am OK with young engineers in roles with oversight, but not with a "frat bro" culture. Also, I'm 21 years old, with no management experience, and even I know that's a horrible idea.
You could almost make the argument that as these engineers hit their 40's they began mailing it in.
I wonder how Soviet engineer ages correlated to the the relative success of particular programs?
They were indeed younger then. People chain smoked, had heart attacks without modern bypass surgeries, generally had larger families and more kids to take care of.
If Werner von Braun was younger he’d have been less likely to have been a career building nazi and SS member.
I don't know the specifics but I would be willing to bet that those Engineers passed ethics courses that are required to get an Engineering degree and certificate.
...unlike software "engineers".
I'm happy to say it's definitely no on the first count and the second one is very subjective, but it's a strong no from me.
A different charitable take is that ethics courses are generally a recurring requirement for government employees. I'm not sure how much impact that has on actually ethical behavior.