Do you really think we will be a leading space faring Nation with the " on the cheap" commercial approach?
Below is a summary by a friend at nasa that sums up the "space on the cheap approach".
.... unfortunately unlike any of our past programs where we still had a say on how the vehicle is to be built plus a degree of oversight, we ( nasa) are now basically cut off from these COTS vehicles. The quality of work ranges from excellent to down right horrible! Some like Boeing have vast experience, follows much the same processes that they have been using with us and even comes up with quite a bit of product (and process) innovation and improvements of their own. Others just hires people (like Draper labs) who knows what they are doing. Finally we got the ones who hires fresh out college kids, pays them low wages and promises them dreams and uses threats to build their vehicles. We get what we pay for ....
.... unfortunately unlike any of our past programs where we still had a say on how the vehicle is to be built plus a degree of oversight, we ( nasa) are now basically cut off from these COTS vehicles. The quality of work ranges from excellent to down right horrible! Some like Boeing have vast experience, follows much the same processes that they have been using with us and even comes up with quite a bit of product (and process) innovation and improvements of their own. Others just hires people (like Draper labs) who knows what they are doing. Finally we got the ones who hires fresh out college kids, pays them low wages and promises them dreams and uses threats to build their vehicles. We get what we pay for ....
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