re: NASA pushes back dates for Artemis II and Artemis III missions.

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But having said that, NASA has always been all in on private companies hauling the mail. Everything they've ever done in manned spaceflight has been through contracts to private companies.

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Yeah I know but I was referring to them actually overseeing the development and I'm pretty sure they've always taken ownership of the vehicles and operated them correct?

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But all of this assumes a market for more launches and what we've seen so far is there isn't one. I'd bet over 90% of SpaceX launches last year were launching Starlink. You say the market is growing, but it empirically isn't (yet). Especially not for super heavy lift vehicles

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I just checked and 36 of the 96 Falcon launches were no starlink customers. Including several crewed missions to ISS. I predict that as SpaceX continues to drive down the cost of access to space it will just open up the market to even more customers who previously couldn't afford it. It's already happening.