And yet the empirical evidence says you are wrong. Most recent problems SpaceX have encountered have been with newly made boosters and second stages....
And lets not forget the shaky condition of the Orion after the partial failure of a PDU, which they've decided not to fix because it would take up to...
To which the same question applies as it does to so many of Russia's space ambitions, where's the money coming from? They seem to be struggling with...
I'm not sure this is so much consolidation as Voyager putting together all the pieces needed to be able to get into a future commercial space station...
I will recklessly make a couple of predictions. SpaceX will beat 30 launches for the year, possibly including an SS/SH test, and SLS will not launch...
I would say the Dynetics lander makes sense for the exploration phase while the Lunar Starship would make sense if/when large scale infrastructure is...
Looking at that image and seeing the relative progress I'm wondering if SN13 ands SN14 might be skipped if they get a successful landing with SN09 or...