nasa sees a great future with spacex so
every move they make appears to be an
obsession towards spacex there will be
many challenges in space exploration
right now especially with russia now
that president putin has decided to
continue fighting ukraine we should
expect russia's space agency ross cosmos
to be the least likely to feature any
space transformation in the future
because they're currently focusing on
the war and venting all of russia's
resources to keep the military strong so
we shouldn't expect russia's space
agency ros cosmos to develop an
elaborate plan that would astound the
globe even if they do it will not be
while the current conflict between them
and ukraine is ongoing stay tuned as we
expose how nasa gave spacex another
contract worth millions of dollars the
deal has made boeing starliners feel
inferior in any space activity they do
you'll also learn how the new nasa
contracts would demolish russia's space
activities and reduce them to nearly
nothing among many other space companies
spacex is the most dependable
consistently excelling in rocket
launches and engineering this is why
nasa has placed its trust in spacex nasa
formerly worked with boeing but looks
like they have totally given up on
boeing since most of their contracts
have been pending for a long time now
and their operations are not cost
efficient it follows certification
delays for boeing's starliner spaceship
nasa planned alternate flights between
spacex and boeing and still intends to
carry them out however boeing has
encountered technological challenges
that have caused them to go behind
schedule boeing and spacex with us the
only possibilities in the absence of a
second commercial crew program boeing
whose starliner spaceship has yet to
complete an uncrewed test flight has
been excluded from this contract add-on
on the other hand spacex completed
uncrewed and crew dragon test flights in
march 2019 and may 2020 respectively it
will eventually begin operational
astronaut transport missions in 2022
making it the only feasible alternative
as a result nasa stated that it would
grant three more transport contracts to
spacex bringing the company's commercial
crew transportation capability cct cap
contract from around 2.6 billion to 3.49
billion dollars according to nasa's
office of the inspector general oig as
of august 2019 spacex is projected to
spend 1.2 billion dollars on research
and test flights and 1.4 billion dollars
on up to six operational crude dragon
missions out of the initial 2.6 billion
dollar grant the contract includes
missions crew 7 crew 8 and crew 9. nasa
astronauts will be flown to the
international space station by spacex
beginning in 2020 ending a long period
in which nasa had no direct access to
the orbiting laboratory with the
retirement of its space shuttle fleet in
2011. nasa astronauts flew aboard the
russian sewers spacecraft during this
time while the agency collaborated with
private partners to develop new vehicles
that meant that nasa planned to pay 230
million dollars for the first six crew
dragon transport flights each of which
would transport four people to and from
the international space station and act
as a lifeboat in the six months during
launches and landing nasa's contract
revision calls for the space agency to
pay the corporation no more than 890
million dollars up to 297 million
dollars per trip for three more
transport flights likely carrying four
people nasa will thus pay an average of
up to 74 million dollars per seat for
missions seven through nine far more
than the 55 million dollars per seat
spacex's first six crew dragon missions
would cost the space agency to be clear
there is a potential that a significant
portion of the 890 million dollars
contract value rise occurred before the
inclusion of three additional flights in
which case nasa may be paying about 700
to 800 million dollars or 60 to 70
million dollars per seat for three more
dragon launchers in any case it's less
than the 90 million dollars per seat
that boeing's starliner is slated to
cost after nasa's sawyers ride sharing
operations boeing charged almost 90
million dollars per seat to launch
american astronauts on russian sawyers
flights
nasa recognized in that notification
that spacex is the only american
corporation currently certified to
transfer humans to the iss at an
affordable charge billing was also
awarded a six mission cct cap contract
from nasa in 2014 valued at 4.2 billion
dollars although its starliner
spacecraft is currently in the concrete
testing phase
its next test mission is slated for may
2022 when it will launch atop an atlas v
rocket to rendezvous with the
international space station spacex will
increasingly likely complete all six of
its initial crew flights before
attempting its first introductory test
flight a milestone crew dragon fast in
may 2020 is this the end game for the
boeing starliner whether or not the
starliner will ever become operational
remains to be seen still its future is
becoming increasingly bleak as boeing's
starliner program leader mark nappy will
soon retire from the company nasa
requires starliner now more than ever as
the redundancy provided by sawyers is no
longer available nasa booked three
additional flights as expected this is
nothing to do with the cancellation of
the starliner starliner will arrive
which is a beautiful thing everyone
rooting for starliner to fail is
essentially a communist who enjoys
monopolies and despises the ability to
pick from a variety of products spacex
is already exploiting the present
exclusivity by boosting the price of
each seat by 50
yes it is still less expensive than
boeing but it's still far more costly
than it might be and if starliner is no
longer available the amount of money
spacex may demand is limitless with the
recent mil contract price versus ula
it's clear that spacex maximizes its
profit spacex overestimated ula's
capacity to go lower and they provided
pricing with as much profit as possible
slightly under ula atlas costs because
they assumed ula couldn't match them
anyhow they were mistaken and ula
received more than half of the contracts
spacex could have provided launches for
half the price that ulo proposed but
they were kind of greedy so we already
know what would happen if style liner is
cancelled it literally means spacex seat
cost would exceed 100 million dollars
since nasa would not have a chance the
present just hike of 50 to 75 million
dollars is most likely a lesson learned
from the ula contracts not to
underestimate the potential of others to
get cheaper it appears like boeing is
too lazy to get off the ground and move
the world as they used to before spacex
came into the picture so nasa no longer
feels secure awarding any contract to
boeing perhaps nasa believes boeing
doesn't have the necessary capability to
complete any deal effectively boeing's
difficulties began with a merger with
mcdonnell douglas that merger marked the
beginning of the transition from an
engineering company to one that is
primarily concerned with the bottom line
via outsourcing to third parties boeing
bean counters have deviated from
engineers standards by selecting less
tolerant farts for less money boeing as
a corporation killed itself by
relocating management east and acquiring
too many incompatible firms they used to
be a fantastic company but they have now
devolved into a level of bureaucracy and
dysfunction that affects almost all of
their activities they should never have
allowed smaller plane makers to join
boeing because it would have diminished
crucial competition boeing no longer
provides any services that can be deemed
reliable their operating goal is to
postpone and increase costs until
projects are scrapped it's mind-blowing
that they're still being handed
contracts they would have been better
off utilizing the apollo modules as a
foundation and modernizing them to
present standards another challenge has
arisen for starliner the atlas v rocket
a russian-built first stage engine
launches starliner in response to
western sanctions russia has halted
further exports of the engine to the
united states and technical support for
the machines already in u.s hands ula
should have enough engines in stock to
support the contracted flights but they
will now have to keep them in flight
ready condition on their own without
manufacturer help as for russia's space
agency ross cosmos everything was going
well for them and we were expecting them
to reach the moon someday just as they
promised but recently everything was
pushed to the wrong side when russia's
president putin made the wrong and
regrettable decision to invade ukraine
russia will be busy raising resources to
take over ukraine instead of developing
a better strategy to improve roscosmos
activities so elon musk and spacex are
now on the field ready to show the world
what they are capable of the problem
that would surface here is that without
russia the iss would most certainly die
on the vine and spacex would be required
to safely de-orbit the defunct space
station it doesn't mean we can't have
space stations still the iss is so
extremely linked to russia and other
international funding is so limited that
it will be difficult to continue without
them instead there will most likely be a
period in which we focus our funds on
building a new space station without
russia's involvement and thus without
reliance on them so far spacex has been
able to build what was previously
impossible and accelerate its path to
success imagine discovering a brilliant
solution through research only to find
out that someone has vaguely considered
it copied it and red taped your ability
to incorporate it do you think russia
would actually be eliminated from the
iss let's all to keep an eye on spacex
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