Probably most nowadays, because IT is no longer primarily made of geeks, but out of sales and marketing people who think their next ad-exchange SaaS platform for 3D-printed kitten cloud computing solutions is The Best Thing, and space probes? "Space? Yeah, there's something like that, they put it in movies sometimes, but who really cares about it?"
Possibly true if you're trying to get a job for an ad-exchange SaaS platform like you mention. But is that really where you'd go next after significant experience doing low-level, high-assurance programming at NASA? There are plenty of other parts of the tech industry whose hiring managers would appreciate that experience a lot more. For example, any kind of embedded-systems job, or even most "regular" programming jobs in more engineering-oriented industries like energy and aerospace.
