>NASA was talking about fostering commercial space launch companies before SpaceX was founded Well right, except in that scenario "commercial space flight" was

>NASA was talking about fostering commercial space launch companies before SpaceX was founded Well right, except in that scenario "commercial space flight" was them continuing to hand dump trucks full of cash to ULA. Which wasn't really commercial in the sense we're all talking about commercial at all. It was a giant government contractor who essentially acts as an extension of the government who was interested in maximizing profit, not innovating. It looks, and would have looked, absolutely nothing like SpaceX. No signs indicate they're even ABLE to provide the same relationship.