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To: The_Victor
the money for the Dragon program is coming from NASA.

Temper your enthusiasm for a put down, that's a fixed price for performance contract SpaceX has with NASA. All the risk is on SpaceX. If it were cost-plus you might have a leg to stand on, but this is the inverse of the typical government space program. It's not a subsidy program.

9 posted on 12/21/2015 6:07:37 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: no-s
Temper your enthusiasm for a put down, that's a fixed price for performance contract SpaceX has with NASA. All the risk is on SpaceX. If it were cost-plus you might have a leg to stand on, but this is the inverse of the typical government space program. It's not a subsidy program.

There are no other buyers for the Dragon vehicle. The entire program has been funded, albeit in a somewhat different commercial contract that does place the risk on SpaceX, by NASA. In the hopes that a low cost vehicle to low earth orbit will be the end result, but the ~3 billion dollars NASA has paid to SpaceX since the program start is still government funds. But better SpaceX than Russia.

36 posted on 12/21/2015 7:35:33 PM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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