When you attend a buffet dinner theatre production staged and performed by NASA Goddard's theatre ensemble (known very appropriately as MAD - you know, since they're mad scientists and all? Although I was quickly told that their madness is most certainly not the reason for that name, and that MAD is merely an acronym for Music And Drama), you'll come to realise a few things:

1) Some of those rocket scientists could just as easily have swapped their lab coats for feather boas and made it as broadway performers.

2) Some of those rocket scientists, although very clever and enthusiastic, wouldn't make it to stardom unless they complete the astronaut program.

And finally, and most importantly, you'll realise that: