Launching a New Era: SpaceX vs. ULA
Alan Erskine wrote:
If they can offer lower-cost alternatives, one must wonder why it has
taken 50 years to do so.
Because no-one forced them to.
I blame the space-race mentality (which was actually an arms-race mentality)
that created the expensive "business-as-usual" practices of the defense
contractors.
Until COTS came along. There will be ramifications in DoD contracts as a
side-effect to NASA's COTS that are only now becoming clear I think. This is
like one of those James Burke 'Connections' episodes only playing out in
slower real-time.
Dave
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