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While I agree largely with most of your points, NASA does have a lot of say in SpaceX's engineering practices. If you read up on the certification process and e
by greedo 6y ago
While I agree largely with most of your points, NASA does have a lot of say in SpaceX's engineering practices. If you read up on the certification process and especially the reviews after the various failures (Crew Dragon tests), SpaceX had to get NASA sign off. Now as long as SpaceX can show that doing something with XYZ works fine, then they can do XYZ.
- simonh 6y agoNASA has to sign it off so yes they do have input into engineering practices in that sense, but they do not have any say in the design itself or how SpaceX reach the engineering criteria. They set the goals, but not the methods of achieving them.