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I'm not saying it's competing. But if NASA want any semblance of an alternative to SpaceX, they have no alternative. Boeing can be as uncompetitive as they like
by rich_sasha 2y ago
I'm not saying it's competing. But if NASA want any semblance of an alternative to SpaceX, they have no alternative. Boeing can be as uncompetitive as they like, there's value in being second best, almost no matter how poor their delivery.
In turn, SpaceX can't quite apply monopoly pricing, because there is a hypothetical alternative in Boeing. SpaceX can't hike their prices 10x from current. But if they are the only crewed space transport?
- dotnet00 2y agoI mean, SpaceX has already been contracted for the flights for the remaining years that the ISS will be around. They already don't have the ability to raise prices that much. NASA keeps Starliner around because they've already committed to the bit about redundancy when it comes to "new space" style acquisition processes (after all, they're still fully intending on flying astronauts on Orion without flight testing a fully crew capable version, and talking about paying for a backup option to it and SLS is a fast way to get fired or forced to resign).