SpaceX is really blowing away the competition these days.
Yes, they out bid Boeing by 95% on this.
We are just beginning to unlock the possibilities of cheap space flight. There will be many exciting launches over the next decades.
Agreed. I listened to the skeptics about the prospects of Space X and Tesla. Man oh man, the other guys were just a bunch of lying hound dogs. Elon Musk, in the Space X early days, tried to buy rocket engines from Russia. They laughed. He tried to hire the best rocket scientist talent- they would not return his calls. So he had to be his own project manager. He hit the books, and now he has not just a rocket engine, but a PROCESS of continuous improvement for manufacturing rocket engines.
He humbly says that if he could have hired better talent, maybe Space X’s first two rocket launches would not have failed.
By comparison, the NASA legacy suppliers wares are like fireworks from China.