NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
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Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
#2About damn time!
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#3Is this realistic? Doesn't the development timelines for a new large rocket stretch into more than a decade? Unless someone else had one under development...
Could this just be a pressure tactic on SpaceX?
Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
#4Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.
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#5I love how government acquisitions works. A company can fail to deliver the final product, then use the recompete process to win a higher paying contract by using the progress they already made on the previous contract to demonstrate a performance level above their competitors.
Whereas all the competition has to use their own R&D budget to show capability to meet the requirements of the second contract, the winner of the first contract used the government's R&D money to be competitive.
Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
#6About damn time!
Who do you think is capable of competing, given that they didn't win the bid the first time round?
Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
#7Is this realistic? Doesn't the development timelines for a new large rocket stretch into more than a decade? Unless someone else had one under development... Could this just be a pressure tactic on SpaceX?
As mentioned in the article (of course I realise we mustn't read those here) Blue Origin is supposed to be providing a lander in 2030 in any case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_V), so doesn't seem like a _huge_ stretch.
Somewhat surprised they've waited this long, under the circumstances.
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#9Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.
Yeah who is going to deliver faster and more reliable than SpaceX? Boeing? LM?
Doubt
Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
#10I love how government acquisitions works. A company can fail to deliver the final product, then use the recompete process to win a higher paying contract by using the progress they already made on the previous contract to demonstrate a performance level above their competitors. Whereas all the competition has to use their own R&D budget to show capability to meet the requirements of the second contract, the winner of…
Everyone hates on the Government. But that describes every competitive bid process used by many corporations.
Any company can do that to another company.
Welcome to Capitalism. Just because it is a government contract doesn't by default mean it is Socialism.
And, of course they can re-bid. Just like every other corporation does.