> ULA, as well as Airbus, has a problem Yep, exactly the same problem as IBM, Blackberry, and many other companies who were at the top and then either stopped

> ULA, as well as Airbus, has a problem Yep, exactly the same problem as IBM, Blackberry, and many other companies who were at the top and then either stopped innovating or got to big and slow. Having the bigger companies fail in a respect is a good thing. Have those engineers go back into the free market. Have them create companies and make competition. Push technologies forward and pricing down. Look at Rocket Lab and their Electron rocket. Pretty amazing if you ask me and didn't really cost that much. Let the free market sort things out. It always does. Unless of course you start involving the government with their jobs program and you get an SLS rocket that costs $2b each and isn't reusable. What we need are many more companies providing launch services. Lets get the cost down to $1k to send someone up. Lets get more companies building infrastructure in space, so we have 10, 20 or 50 space stations in LEO. There's so much up for grabs, but it won't be available if we start protectionist policies.