One of the more intriguing space stories in a while broke last week when NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a congressional hearing that the two habitation modules built for the Lunar Gateway had been corroded.

The immediate response to these comments on Wednesday before a House committee from some space industry observers was doubt—Isaacman, they said , must be lying .

However, the primary contractor for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost, Northrop Grumman, soon acknowledged there was a manufacturing irregularity . On Friday the European Space Agency, providing the other habitation module (I-HAB), acknowledged that there had been "corrosion" observed.

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