On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 1:38:30 PM UTC-6, wrote:
Tsk tsk tsk.

Pages on pages of warbling about an imagined "lack of progress" shows that not one of you has bothered to do some cursory research on this subject.

The suits are being built under the xEMU program, scheduled for a demonstration flight on the ISS within the next few years and demonstrated.[1] They have been under development for several years now.

All components of the SLS supply chain have been or are in the process of being contracted for roughly a decade of flights.[2] Replacements for Shuttle-era equipment have been under development for several years now, and will be phased-in as the left-over stock is depleted.[2] The SSME replacements (the RS-25E) are being designed to utilize more efficient manufacturing techniques to reduce cost,[3] and the SRB replacements (BOLE) are being designed using common technology with Northrop Grumman's upcoming OmegA launch vehicle, including new lightweight composite SRB casings.[4]

It's kind of baffling that

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVeNY4HdNM
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceLaunch...ls_production/ (easier to link this than link each individually)
[3] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018...ine-rs-25-run/
[4] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/c...0190002126.pdf

Accidentally hit post too early. Was going to cap it off by saying, "It's kind of baffling that these misconceptions went uncorrected for so long."