nasa also doesn't have the luxury of picking their own direction, or tech stack, or doing whatever they want. nasa is burdened by Congress dictation what rocket

nasa also doesn't have the luxury of picking their own direction, or tech stack, or doing whatever they want. nasa is burdened by Congress dictation what rocket to build, even if it isn't the rocket nasa wants. look at the river program though, nasa still does cutting edge stuff with cutting edge hardware, at really high quality. just don't look at sls or iss