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Hopefully this time the incumbent doesn't get paid twice as much for a worse outcome, as happened with Commercial Crew...

NASA paid Boeing 4.5 billion and counting, SpaceX 2.6 billion. SpaceX launched astronauts to ISS 7 times, completely fulfilling the original contract, and continues to launch on new contracts with NASA. Meanwhile Boeing has yet to fly a single astronaut and required NASA to pay them extra for their own delays and failures.



Oh that's pretty much guaranteed.


If those are the two lowest bids what else are you going to do?


From what I recall from NASA Artemis contracts selection process, all bids are weighted with two parameters in addition to the proposed cost: technical merits of the proposal and the confidence score based on the company's management and previous performance.


Tried this kind of contract they don’t award to the lowest bids. There are 3-4 other factors that take higher priority.


That's just one contract. SpaceX will win the rest. ULA is dead. They're being sold for parts.


Boeing not ULA. But yeah Starliner isn’t flying any more missions than they are contractually obligated to fly.




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