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Negative. It’s pay for performance, and Blue is already pitching in more money to help fund it than the contract is worth. So negative money. That’s the advanta
by Robotbeat 3y ago
Negative. It’s pay for performance, and Blue is already pitching in more money to help fund it than the contract is worth. So negative money. That’s the advantage of commercial contracting as opposed to cost-plus contracting. A lot of idiotic takes on private spaceflight have this completely backwards.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThere are milestone payments. So even if they fail to get to the moon, if they meet some of the other milestones they'll get some of the money from the contract. But not enough to turn a profit either way.