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Government procurement is an opaque mess. He very well could have made an stupid but honest mistake at some point prior to coming over to his current position

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  It doesn't sound like that from his own wording: > He wrote that he took “a risk earlier in the year because I judged it necessary to fulfill our mission. Now, over the balance of time, it is clear that I made a mistake in that choice for which I alone must bear the consequences.” My suspicion is it was this: "Boeing also bid but was not awarded with a study contract." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/nasa-selects-hls-lunar-lander-teams-blue-origin-spacex-dynetics.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/nasa-selects-hls-lunar-lande...