• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Plus SpaceX squanders far less money than the contractors that have sucked off the government teat via NASA for 50+ years.

    Those bloated companies are part of the military-industrial complex and finance lobbying to push projects (especially cost-plus) which they can then “compete” for.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame NASA, this is a problem of politicians and grubby bastards in companies like Boeing, General Dynamics, etc. NASA is controlled by congress and whoever is providing financing - the shuttle development history demonstrates these problems very clearly (competing requirements from Air Force, NSA, etc, who were providing funding).

    At a high level, NASA, (like many government projects) have traditionally used more of a “Waterfall” project management approach, while SpaceX has used an iterative Agile-like approach. This means SpaceX can be more nimble while learning along the way, enabling them to change direction when they discover a fundamental misunderstanding. The first launch of Starship demonstrates this approach perfectly.

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      6 months ago

      NASA was also different in 1960’s.

      People said they could have meeting with supplies and make changes in the meeting. Now it seems like everything is a huge ballache to change anything.