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The 'government program' (how we did Apollo) is the high priced
spread. It's true that it makes no sense because it has no real goal
(it changes with every President) and is too expensive to fly. The
other two efforts are commercial efforts, make more sense, spend a lot
less money, and will be far cheaper to fly.

If we did it the old way, we would ONLY have SLS, Musk and Bezos would
keep their money, and we'd get another 'flags and footprints' mission
to somewhere at best.

What kind of commercial effort for such a vehicle and program
could provide the tens of billions of dollars in private capital
to fund it? What would be the business model?


Simple. NASA should do the same thing for commercial HLV that it did
for commercial cargo and commercial crew. Both of those programs are
producing results for about 1/10th what traditional (cost plus) NASA
cost models had predicted. Yet we keep soldiering on with SLS/Orion
knowing it's costing us 10x what it should. SLS/Orion is pure pork.

Jeff
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