With all the noise and gloating surrounding SpaceX, but then also events like the apparently cost-motivated failure to check systems that has kneecapped the current moon landing by Intuitive Machines, I wonder why we don’t hear more about how the greatest space triumph since the Apollo missions — the James Webb Space Telescope — was managed and executed.

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