• frezik@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    What commercial programs are supposed to do is have multiple competing companies. NASA doesn’t want to rely on SpaceX or Boeing alone, or even NASA’s own rocket building programs.

    What we’ve gotten is:

    • NASA’s rocket building program is an overpriced/overschedule boondoggle
    • Boeing needs to be taken out back and shot for the good of both space and atmospheric flight
    • SpaceX is fine for getting to LEO and the ISS
    • Russian Soyuz is a political land mine, and Russian manufacturing practices have gone to shit
    • Nobody else is fully capable at the moment

    There’s some up and commers around. Most will fail. Maybe one will work out and this will get back on track. It shouldn’t just be SpaceX.