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Excuse me, NASA ran the COTS program for commercial resupply contract to the ISS, and they also ran another program for commercial space vehicle. After all, NA
by kiba 10y ago
Excuse me, NASA ran the COTS program for commercial resupply contract to the ISS, and they also ran another program for commercial space vehicle.
After all, NASA help made what SpaceX is today.
Of course, there's probably a faction within the NASA and aerospace contractor community that don't like SpaceX, but it is inaccurate to say that it run contrary to the interest of NASA as a whole.
- erentz 10y agoRight, wouldn't NASA be SpaceX's largest customer? They gave them $1.6 billion for those resupply missions (right when SpaceX needed it to stay alive) and a further $3 billion for that crewed vehicle development you mention.
- greglindahl 10y agoCommercial Crew was $2.6 billion to SpaceX and includes 6 flights, I believe. Yes, NASA is SpaceX's biggest customer, but SpaceX also gets a lot of revenue from launching commercial communications satellites to GEO -- a business that US launchers have not been price competitive at for a long time.
- valuearb 10y agoAnything that threatens the SLS is NASA's mortal enemy, even if it offers a far cheaper route to Mars.