Shawn:
I agree completely with your post. However, you used a term that I fight to remove from the English language. There is no such thing as "rocket science." When you are designing, building, and launching rockets, that is not science; it is engineering. Amielle Major of the The Museum of Science, Boston provides these definitions: "Science is the body of knowledge that explores the physical and natural world. Engineering is the application of knowledge in order to design, build and maintain a product or a process that solves a problem and fulfills a need (i.e. a technology)." Wernher von Braun and the other Germans who came to the US after WW2 and started the US space program called themselves aerospace engineers. Note that scientists can do engineering and engineers can do science, but the focus of the activities is different.
Thank you for your attention. I feel better.