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A lot of the technology it uses was developed by and for NASA with NASA's money. While Dragon may be standing on the shoulders of giants, isn't that equally tr
by CWuestefeld 16y ago
A lot of the technology it uses was developed by and for NASA with NASA's money.
While Dragon may be standing on the shoulders of giants, isn't that equally true of the Orion program? I mean, sure, SpaceX has benefited from past lessons, but so does the current NASA development program. Those giant numbers quoted for Orion/Constellation surely don't include moneys spent on Apollo, Space Shuttle, etc.
- stcredzero 16y agoThe economics of cost-plus do not favor the buyer.
- rbanffy 16y agoIf you read the following paragraph (I should have edited it, but when I realized, it was too late) you would see that NASA is a politician-driven endeavor. It also has a mandate to generate new technology, while SpaceX only needs to apply it. Obviously, Orion/Constellation is not money well spent. At least it teaches that basing a project in common parts with an existing system and then specifying them in a way they are no longer common is appallingly stupid. Ares V may look like a shuttle tank with shuttle SRBs attached, but it's not.