> In September 2014, Boeing won a $4.2 billion award to provide crewed launch services, and SpaceX won $2.6 billion. (SpaceX received less because it offered to

> In September 2014, Boeing won a $4.2 billion award to provide crewed launch services, and SpaceX won $2.6 billion. (SpaceX received less because it offered to provide lower-cost flights). Oh, the logic of government contracts. Maybe they should've incentivized Boeing to try and do it for the same price as SpaceX? I understand the whole redundancy argument, but by paying Boeing double to do the same thing SpaceX is doing you are simply incentivizing inefficiency. This amounts to sheer stupidity in economic terms.