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I was working in mission control at both Hughes Aircraft and Boeing for about 20 years. I was always amazed at the work everyone did before,during and evaluations post mission. We were primarily commercial satelites however both companies orbited defense department payloads. I am continually...

Was the launch costs the big change ? Certainly Boeing is the most expensive but they would never use Spacex to launch the XS-1 even though it would be much cheaper and quick turnaound.