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Musk has talked explicitly about unwinding portions of NASA and replacing it with SpaceX to "improve efficiency." Which honestly should happen to some extent (
by mlyle 2y ago
Musk has talked explicitly about unwinding portions of NASA and replacing it with SpaceX to "improve efficiency."
Which honestly should happen to some extent (I'm not a fan of SLS). But we shouldn't become beholden to one vendor, and it's sure looking a lot more like removing options for the future and competition than a play for efficiency.
And anyone doing this for their own companies in the past would be a textbook example of corruption.
- ethbr1 2y agoPeople forget that Boeing space was an excellent engineering company at one point. One of the things that fucked it up was decades of cost-plus government work. Companies become the most profitable versions of themselves the market allows them to be... which without competition usually doesn't bode well for excellence.