Burt smells a rat in Zero’s plan for NASA to rely on “commercial” space companies.
Burt did not get where he is by being reckless. He pushes the boundaries methodically calculating the risks. He sees that this effort is driven by politics not engineering and will likely blow up and wreck the long term prospects for commercial space.
I tend to agree with him, but I’ll watch and wait to see what develops before publicly criticize it.
I guess Burt has earned the right to be more outspoken when he sees a train wreck coming that could affect his business.
I smell a rat too..