Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you… LaunchCode is listening. With its first rocket launched in St. Louis and now manning missions around the country, the nonprofit organization is solving, experiment by experiment, the space oddity of IT talent. Based on the basic premise that filling the IT talent gap — and alleviating poaching — is a quest in aptitude over credentials, and thoughtful manager-to-apprentice mentoring, LaunchCode’s experiments and partnerships are growing at the speed of light, creating an atmosphere where Fortune 500s and two-person startups can find and foster top talent.