>>71310570It's all old contracts and retardation due to repeated budget cuts plus administrators interested in politics rather than engineering. That being said, should never put all your eggs in one basket and shouldn't rely on spacex for anything. The SLS is a deeply flawed program based on the false assumption that they could just save money by cobbling together space shuttle bits BUUUUUUUT nobody wanted to admit it was shit and if it did get cancelled there might've been the possibility that no alternative would exist, so here we are. Plus we've got a moon architecture that's absolutely retarded and shit's kinda fucked and nobody wants to admit it.
>>71310994Not really, this shit all originates from before all that crap. Not everything is due to that. It's a different kind of politics, specifically budget cuts and a belief NASA is pointless
