Cronyx

Nice to see how they stand by their employees. /s

And other various lawyerings

Icky icky blech hurty tum tum 😖😝😳

Ironically, this is the same advice to give someone when being mugged by an armed robber.

When congress pulled back money for a while and paused the program they thought that ok no biggie we will just give them back money later and they will fly. No no no, we missed the complex window.

Nobody wants to talk about it, because its one of the biggest screw ups ever.

Hang on. Who's responsibility was it to explain this to Congress before they fucked that up, and why didn't that happen? That's a pretty big ball to drop, for them to make such a huge error based on a misconception that you can effectively just pause orbital mechanics and resume them next fiscal quarter. It seems like when that project was initially approved also, there should have been a "Once we start this, we can't pause without wasting all the investment already made up to that point" conversation.

That being said, if this had gone as planned, would we have been to Mars by now? Was this going to be a fly by, or a landing?