lol, I grew up as Nasa grew up.. from afar I followed program after program.
Not to defend Nasa, but these are not fly-by night folks at Nasa, well, they do fly at night, but..,
They are definitely underfunded and in need of some new hardware to play with.
Personally I would like to have put some goop in the gap, after viewing some better resolution images, it’s not a mission killer. jmo.
I grew up in (and now live outside of) Huntsville. My Dad worked in the Space program...
They need to get rid of the diversity and feel-good crowd.
Bring back the gray gun-metal desks with real men in buzz-cuts and ties, puffing on their cigarettes.