In the overall bigger picture, if SpaceX is the low-cost provider right now (it appears to be) then cut off United Launch Alliance.
I understand the premise, But still too small of a picture. We are as of right now 21 trillion in debt, 21,843,614, to be exact. Will we be now be laying off or not refilling unneeded positions at NASA because we are paying these companies instead? Will NASA ask for a smaller budget in response to these new savings?
No... And here lies he problem. We are paying a second party to do a job that we are already paying NASA to do, so it is an added cost with no savings at all. I can add fairly well and as a business man this doesn’t add up to a saving in the least. It is all added costs.
What bothers me is the government is never honest to the taxpayers about how much all these “savings” are actually going to “cost” our Great Grandchildren in the end. A business would go broke immediately if it was operated like this. In the end it is actually double the cost.