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SpaceX is missing its milestones. Boeing is missing its milestones. Why not both?

• somenameforme 2y ago
  Boeing right now is in a terrible place. They have cost+ contracts for Orion and SLS - key components of the Artemis program. Cost+ means the government pays all of their costs and then gives them a fat chunk of profit on top. The problem for them is that when/if they ever deliver on those contracts, that's pretty much the end of them. They simply lack the technical capability to compete with SpaceX. This means that so long as they keep working on the SLS and Orion, the money keeps rolling in. But if they ever succeed then their Golden Goose, of taxpayer money, dies. There was a recentish WSJ report suggesting that they are looking into spinning off/selling their space division, and it's probably related to this. Great legacy, but they seriously need a complete reboot in the present. SpaceX by contrast is, more or less, in their prime. They're going to complete the project, not because of Artemis, but because they want to get people to the Moon as well as to Mars. It's just a part of their operational goals which they have been directly and working towards, with steady progress, for many years now.