I truly wonder about the future of NASA, when that agency is moving at a snail’s pace. It’s almost as if they WANT SpaceX to beat them to the Moon.
It's not like NASA ever really had any ambition of their own.
Going to the moon was a political goal set by JFK.
And just about all of the engineering for the spacecraft was done outside.
The Lunar Excursion Module was built by Grumman.
NASA's big focus today seems to be space telescopes.
It's fine with me. I would rather government got out of science entirely. Government corrupts everything it touches.