If they don’t call it Green Lizard Enterprise Linux I’ll be disappointed.

You want a disgusting AI generated content mess? Because that’s how you get a disgusting AI generated content mess.

sucked big time,but not because it was planned.

No no, it’s definitely coincidence that all other planned national economics have sucked too.

Stop trying to make communism happen. It’s not going to happen.

They’re lining up an IPO. Anything suggesting that they can’t maintain 5-10% real growth year after year (like other companies that investors could put their money) is truly damming. A sustained decrease in revenue, even a small one, is going to gut the IPO valuation.

Cost plus is only defensible if the goal is short-term and all-important. If an asteroid were barreling towards Earth, yeah, sure, throw a trillion dollars at it.

An open-ended goal of expanding the scope of human endeavor in space (and this landing is just a manifestation of the bigger goal) requires building an efficient industry around the goal. To that end cost-plus must go.

do not have the interests of humanity in mind…

Frankly, neither do public endeavors. Public endeavors have the interests of the politicians first and foremost, and NASA funding is, for all practical purposes, another pork program intended to draw in votes in Florida and Texas, with any gains for humanity as a positive side effect to be exploited in campaign ads. In the past 50 years this model has failed to deliver improved access to space. SpaceX has managed to reduce costs (and, by extension, increase accessibility) by a hundred fold. I know everyone hates Musk, and he is well and truly an asshole, but the current space renaissance is due to SpaceX.