As with SpaceX and the Commercial Cargo/Crew projects, NASA sets requirements, milestones, procedures, etc., as they did with Boeing et al during Apollo. https

As with SpaceX and the Commercial Cargo/Crew projects, NASA sets requirements, milestones, procedures, etc., as they did with Boeing et al during Apollo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)#NASA_and_the_Apollo_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)#NASA... > Borrowing from the US Air Force Minuteman program, Mueller formed the Apollo Executive Group, which consisted of himself and the presidents of Apollo's main contractors.