[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

>>>How would you have done it from the start???<<<

NASA's money should have gone to offering competitive prizes like Congress allows but like NASA opportunistically won't do:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

As for space projects that got underway without govt. support, many have been thwarted by NASA. Here's an example:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Beal

What a waste of hundreds of millions of dollars.

[U S Army EOD]

You have absolutely no idea in Hades what you are talking about. All contracts are bid within the private sector. There are Cost Plus Incentive Fees, Cost Plus Award Fees, etc. type contracts.

I worked in the Munitions part of defense contracts for 25 years and the NASA contracts are bid the same way. You have latched on to something you don't understand and apparently can't be explained to you even in simple terms.

Tell me all you know about the Vanguard project.