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> Equally strange is the statement that 'for the first time a private company created a crewed spacecraft'. And what about Boeing and Lockheed Martin? Aren't th
by cryptonector 6y ago
> Equally strange is the statement that 'for the first time a private company created a crewed spacecraft'. And what about Boeing and Lockheed Martin? Aren't they still private or have they been nationalized? SpaceX is no less a private company than Boeing is with the ties to the Pentagon being no weaker,
ULA is a private rocket company, yes, and successful, but they don't yet have a successful crewed spacecraft.
- avmich 6y agoThe principal difference is the NASA involvement and its forms. For Mercury/Gemini/Apollo/Shuttle NASA designed, managed and ordered spacecrafts. For Crew Dragon, NASA buys launches - with a lot of say in how the spacecraft should be built and behaved, but still not on the level of project initiator, as it happened before. SpaceX is a bigger author of its manned spacecraft than any private company ever was.