The Webb/Hubble space telescopes.
The loose and lost nuts and bolts alone were enough to bump the mission into 2021, officials noted. ...
“The complexity and risk cannot be overstated or overestimated,” he said.
Untightened nuts and bolts. If that's "complex," God help us.
Maybe the worker got this confused with NASCAR's new lug nut tightening rules.
-PJ
I remember reading about some of the SDI (ballistic missile defense) testing failures. A great many of them had little to do with the difficulty of intercepting something that small moving that fast. Instead, they were “stupid” problems, like “arms in launch bay did not retract”. And worse.
It was almost as if the tech was basically there (it is / was), but nobody bothers to check the basic stuff. God help us...