“The Committee has significant concerns about the technical challenges facing MSR and potential further impacts on confirmed missions, even before MSR has completed preliminary design review,” stated the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee in its report on the budget.
Frankly, good. I’m sick and tired of NASA throwing endless good money after bad when a program is clearly off the rails and needs to be rethought from the ground up or simply given up as a bad idea for the time being.
There have been many examples where a project has gone billions of dollars over budget and years (or even decades) over schedule, and then when the bloated carcass finally gets dragged over the finish line cheerleaders go “see, it was all worth it! The naysayers were wrong!” When they can’t see the innumerable other better projects that could have existed with those resources but never had the chance to get off the drawing board.