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Re:Starship is still not understood by panick21_ on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:39AM (#29055753)
No, now you have many private groups with slightly different interest temporarly unified. Once you create one gigantic mega contractor, that group has a much more specific and target interested in lobbying for that one specific program.
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Re:Starship is still not understood by ncmncm on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:49PM (#29061616)
In other words, no worse than the present condition.

But it would be increasingly awkward for Congress to be seen to force NASA to choose the $2B launcher from vendor A over the $10M or $50M (or whatever) launcher from vendor B.

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