After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready to fly
The Saturn V also took many years to develop and there were several &quot;rehearsal&quot; missions before there was a landing.<p>NASA is not incompetent or corrupt and neither are its contractors. The people who work all their lives at those institutions don&#x27;t do so because they love the idea of never going to space. You might consider that the process is subject to other pressures than corruption. The reason why things are so expensive and take so long is because of how our society demands that government act. The response to failure of any kind is pull the plug, and skin those responsible alive in the press, and treat it not as a setback or a problem to be solved, but yet another play in a partisan-ideological football game.<p>The people saying that they hope it fails so their preferred vision can be implemented do not understand that if this fails, then that&#x27;s just more years away from the goal. There isn&#x27;t some tiny group of people you can point to and say &quot;its their fault.&quot; The enemy here is actually broader society reads about, talks about, and votes about its government.