Don't read too much into this. The way these always work is they pick a low-stakes mission to give a new competitor a chance to build the market. If they're o

Don't read too much into this. The way these always work is they pick a low-stakes mission to give a new competitor a chance to build the market. If they're on track to miss the deadline badly they'll switch vendors to SpaceX who they know can pick up the slack on a short timeline. And if they do manage to deliver, great.