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NASA defends Artemis cost and schedule amid planning of possible changes (spacenews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It was not designed to be efficient. It was designed to be un-killable by Congress.

If you give an engineer a stupid constraint to fulfil, they’ll generally find a maliciously creative way to fill it.

None of that is an insult to engineers.

Source: am engineer