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Having two suppliers for critical services has been common practice where possible for NASA and USSF for quite some time now. Commercial Resupply (SpaceX and OS
by appointment 3y ago
Having two suppliers for critical services has been common practice where possible for NASA and USSF for quite some time now. Commercial Resupply (SpaceX and OSC/NG), Commercial Crew (SpaceX and Boeing), National Security Space Launch (SpaceX and ULA),
- ren_engineer 3y ago>quite some time not exactly an endorsement for NASA considering how little they've accomplished in recent decades. To me it makes sense to focus on funding the R/D "primitives" for space technology rather than funding essentially duplicate projects reinventing the wheel. That's what worked for Apollo, the new strategy has been a colossal failure and SpaceX alone has hiding a lot of NASA's flaws