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I hate to break it to you, but everything NASA builds is built and operated by private companies. SpaceX is an incremental improvement on something that has bee
by damoncali 14y ago
I hate to break it to you, but everything NASA builds is built and operated by private companies. SpaceX is an incremental improvement on something that has been done for decades. That is a far cry from Musk's fantastic claims.
- jlgreco 14y agoHow do you propose he try harder?
- dasmoth 14y agoCommercially built: mostly true Commercially operated: much less so (with exceptions, e.g. shuttle processing was kind-of commercial) Commercially designed: nope. The commercial resupply contracts may not quite meet everyone's idea of what "commercial" means (and there certainly was/is a lot of NASA scrutiny of the spacecraft -- rather less of the launch vehicle), but it's still a substantially different model from anything NASA has tried on a major project in the last half century.
- damoncali 14y agoThis is just not true. NASA outsources pretty much everything to private companies. I designed NASA hardware myself while employed by a private company.