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No need to be skeptical - that's logical, why use a foreign country as your main provider, especially a country you are not always in agreement with. The large
by gutnor 13y ago
No need to be skeptical - that's logical, why use a foreign country as your main provider, especially a country you are not always in agreement with.
The larger question though is if that is beneficial for the market as a whole. The idea of NASA not doing stuff internally is to benefit from the cost efficiency of the market. If NASA uses mainly SpaceX, they run the risk of creating a Halliburton like symbiosis and in that case you wonder why they don't do stuff internally rather than giving a share of taxpayer money to private shareholder and destroying the whole market by over-favoring one company in particular.
- DennisP 13y agoSpaceX is doing rather well with regard to cost efficiency. And they're not asking for special treatment, just for the opportunity to bid.