“Instead of a lean contract, there are thousands of requirements for something that has no other customers.”

Yes, because we're doing poetry and not logic.

There's nothing wrong with poetry except when we lie to describe it as logic.

#MoonDoggle

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/as-nasa-increasingly-relies-on-commercial-space-there-are-some-troubling-signs/

As NASA increasingly relies on commercial space, there are some troubling signs

“The government’s really got to look at itself.”…

Ars Technica