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Because their bid was better. But now BlueOrigin gets more money for a significantly worse bid. The problem I am point out here is that NASA defines a narrow s
by panick21_ 3y ago
Because their bid was better. But now BlueOrigin gets more money for a significantly worse bid.
The problem I am point out here is that NASA defines a narrow set of specification and don't value anything beyond those specifications.
NASA is not optimizing for the most useful money spend for the next 20 years. They define narrow specification for short term operations and only value that.
So now we have something that is incredibly revolutionary and could carry humanity all over the solar system getting less money then a hacked together solution from 3 contractors who have proven to perform extremely badly on such contracts getting more money.