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>"The space agency’s first three Artemis moon missions over the next three years — including a human landing planned for 2025 — are all set to travel aboard the
by bogomipz 5y ago
>"The space agency’s first three Artemis moon missions over the next three years — including a human landing planned for 2025 — are all set to travel aboard the SLS rocket and Orion capsule, which are being built by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne and numerous other suppliers and engineering services firms."
I'm guessing these companies enumerated in the last sentence are the "competitors" referenced in the article's actual title? How concerned would/should those companies be? Aren't those same suppliers constantly flush with regular defense contracts from the government? I don't know enough about them to know what percentage of their business is NASA vs regular defense/military contracting.