• HobbitFoot
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    35 months ago

    It is been a plan for a while in the USA to shift launches from government run to private run for over a decade. This is just an implementation of that strategy.

    • The Doctor
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      25 months ago

      Longer - fifteen, closer to twenty years. It took this long for there to be one or two companies that they could be sure wouldn’t just cut and run (especially given how cutthroat the aerospace industry is).