I believe there's some disagreement if the Space Shuttle was intentionally built that way (though the eventual reality came close, but it may have been as much

I believe there's some disagreement if the Space Shuttle was intentionally built that way (though the eventual reality came close, but it may have been as much pragmatism and the usual procedures of government bid contracts), but it is definitely a common criticism of how Nasa's current Space Launch System (SLS) was planned and is being built. (It's a criticism also heavily negatively used when comparing, for instance, SpaceX projects over the same timeframes, especially by the sorts of people that think today's Nasa should be more in the business of buying and "leasing" commercialized rockets and capsules rather than building its own.)