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Originally Posted by masraum
Isn't that the whole reason that we've switched from NASA (govt funded) to places like SpaceX (private industry) was to stop spending govt money on space stuff at least on expensive delivery systems?
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You believed that?
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In 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the ISS, with a possible option for crew transport.[165] This contract, designed by NASA to provide "seed money" for developing new boosters, paid SpaceX $278 million to develop the Falcon 9
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during the second round (CCDev 2), NASA awarded SpaceX with a contract worth $75 million to further develop their
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August 2012, NASA announced that SpaceX had been awarded $440 million to continue development and testing of its Dragon 2 spacecraft.
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In September 2014, NASA chose SpaceX and Boeing as the two companies that will be funded to develop systems to transport U.S. crews to and from the ISS. SpaceX won $2.6 billion to complete and certify Dragon 2 by 2017
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Translation: "NASA" means your tax dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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Last edited by Por_sha911; 09-16-2017 at 10:42 AM..
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