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Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by mayama on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:54AM (#33954145)
What about lockheed martin, boeing and blue origin then. They also recruit from the same pool of engineers. LM/ULA gets paid even better with their cost+ contracts. LM/ULA even after getting paid handsomely are way behind in terms of cost/kg or human launchers.
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Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by lifeisstillgood on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:12AM (#33954289)
That's fair - but I suspect the same bureaucracy exists in Lockheed et al, as do the incentives to please senators / government that feed the next round of spending.

The simple answer is to prevent small numbers of people having outsize influence on massive spending. So for example, billionaires...

This is a thing I have been noodling on for ages but have no answers other than "you need a clear mission and people at the top focused on that mission even if they are not clear their retirement packages are secure"

(or maybe their retirement packages were secure some way in ...)

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