Circumstances often lead to NASA building fewer bigger things instead of more smaller things. Which I disagree with as a result, because as soon as one of thos

Circumstances often lead to NASA building fewer bigger things instead of more smaller things. Which I disagree with as a result, because as soon as one of those few big things fails (which is inevitable no matter how smart NASA is), there are going to be massive Congressional investigations and talk about how NASA is wasting our money and how they need to be even more careful, which just means they have to build even bigger, even fewer, even more expensive things that just attract that much more attention when a failure happens. On the other hand, they can lose a $300 million project entirely and no one blinks an eye.