Gateway manufacturer finally acknowledges issue, fails to mention "corrosion"

Gateway's manufacturer finally acknowledges a hardware issue with the lunar orbital station, yet conspicuously avoids the word 'corrosion' in its 300-word statement, raising transparency concerns for NASA's $5 billion program. The disclosed problem affects 12 critical docking components, but the company's silence on the specific degradation mechanism leaves 40% of engineers doubting the safety fix. A former NASA inspector quantified the corrosion risk as 30% higher than the space agency's acceptable threshold for crewed missions.