One engineer who worked on the Orion space program says the harder problem inside that world was way more basic than that. The burning question is, who actually gets a career and who is stuck in "grunt work" mode?

Joshua Foxworth was an aerospace engineer who worked on Orion, and he's making an explosive allegation about what he says he saw firsthand.

According to Foxworth, white male engineers were pushed into temporary or subcontractor "grunt" roles where they handled the technical work but had lousy job security and no way to move up.

He had better jobs with career paths for the DEI employees working directly for the big contractors.

Foxworth says race and sex were absolutely part of the equation.

And that is illegal discrimination.

This is the X post that got this whole story moving.

Foxworth says white men were disproportionately the ones getting stuck in the dead-end grunt work.

Foxworth calls them "temp roles" in the post, but his longer video explains that he's largely talking about subcontractors.

The Lockheed employee that's sitting right next to you has somewhere to go.

You, as a white guy contractor, don't.

Foxworth says he watched qualified engineers spend years doing technical work before realizing they had no real future.

His accusation is that this wasn't happening randomly.

And that brings us to the video.

Keep in mind when you watch this, Foxworth holds bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and like we said, he worked on the Orion capsule.

In the video, he walks through what he says happened during his years on the program and explains the unfair subcontractor setup.

He explains it this way… imagine two cops doing the same work.

One cop belongs to the police department, builds seniority, and has a career ahead of him.

The other cop works for an outside staffing company. He gets less security and has no future within the staffing company or the police department.

Foxworth says that's pretty much what he experienced in the space program.