[dotnet00]

2030 is just a little over 4 years away. They have a lot of hardware to develop and test. It takes time to develop good hardware, as the US is also realizing (again). It was about 7 years between the first flight test of any Apollo related vehicle and Apollo 11.

[ricardobeat]

Who's to say they haven't been working on this for years already? They basically spun up an entire silicon fab industry in the past 5-6 years.

[SV_BubbleTime]

Exactly.

No one is ever able to explain why now, and doubly so why when now is still in the future.