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Where are you getting that crazy idea? Why wouldn't the US government trust them going forward? It doesn't matter if they don't deliver or their planes crash
by magduf 7y ago
Where are you getting that crazy idea? Why wouldn't the US government trust them going forward? It doesn't matter if they don't deliver or their planes crash and kill hundreds: what's important is that they know all the right people, and they're "too big to fail". I see no indication that the government will stop preferring them.
Of course, foreign government and airlines might very well stop doing business with them, but that'll just cause the US government to prop them up even more.
- b34r 7y agoBecause SpaceX is delivering as promised. They’re getting the contracts going forward and ULA will be dissolved.
- nickik 7y agoULA has nothing to do with this. ULA is a launch provider that will exist for a long time yet.
- perl4ever 7y ago"what's important is that they know all the right people, and they're "too big to fail"" Nothing is too big to fail, because as long as it's prevented from failing, the failure continues to scale up.