Brian Thorn wrote:
If they have a big payload they're dreaming about and NASA has SLS
in service, they'd be able to launch it at no R&D cost to
themselves,

Little perhaps but not no R&D cost. At the very least, NASA would
look to extract at least some funding from them for SLS R&D.

rick jones
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It is not a question of half full or empty - the glass has a leak.
The real question is "Can it be patched?"
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