It looks like about 1/3 of Blue Origin’s total funds comes from government contacts. Now keep in mind, that means Blue Origin is providing a service in exchange for that money, it’s not just handed to them.
NASA just realistically isn’t a launch provider. SLS began development in 2011 and has only flown twice since 2022. It’s has cost them almost $32 billion to develop. It even uses quite a bit of older hardware despite all the development costs.
Compare that to SpaceX’s Starship. It started full development in 2019, has cost $15 billion to date, brand new everything, fully reusable, developed arguably the best engine ever made, has flown multiple times now (to varying degrees of success).
NASA just realistically isn’t a launch provider. SLS began development in 2011 and has only flown twice since 2022. It’s has cost them almost $32 billion to develop. It even uses quite a bit of older hardware despite all the development costs.
i’m going to chose to believe that you’ll agree w me that these deficiencies were intentionally manufactured “reagan-style”.
Yup, the same way they have crippled the US Post service. They destroy everything that is good so their friends can privatize and take over to reap huge profits.
isn’t a large part of it funded by taxpayer money?
It looks like about 1/3 of Blue Origin’s total funds comes from government contacts. Now keep in mind, that means Blue Origin is providing a service in exchange for that money, it’s not just handed to them.
is nasa somehow incapable of providing any service that blue origin provides?
NASA just realistically isn’t a launch provider. SLS began development in 2011 and has only flown twice since 2022. It’s has cost them almost $32 billion to develop. It even uses quite a bit of older hardware despite all the development costs.
Compare that to SpaceX’s Starship. It started full development in 2019, has cost $15 billion to date, brand new everything, fully reusable, developed arguably the best engine ever made, has flown multiple times now (to varying degrees of success).
i’m going to chose to believe that you’ll agree w me that these deficiencies were intentionally manufactured “reagan-style”.
Yup, the same way they have crippled the US Post service. They destroy everything that is good so their friends can privatize and take over to reap huge profits.
I thought total cost of SLS program is above 100billion alredy. And all that to fly bunch of people around the moon