13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.

Three months ago, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency was making a major pivot from building a space station in lunar orbit to a base on the surface. This "Ignition" event followed an earlier announcement in which NASA also said it was ending development of a new upper stage for its Space Launch System rocket. In the aftermath of these decisions, there was some grumbling—mostly from contractors involved with the programs—that NASA was foolishly walking away from nearly c