The Falcon 9 program is just a machine: Now launching a very large rocket every 6.3 days in 2022. Super hard and super impressive engineering and technical work.
Holy shit. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says cost-plus contracts have been "a plague on us" in the past. Eager to move toward fixed-price procurement for all contracts. Wow.
Fun fact I discovered while doing some research.
Amount NRO spent to build a new payload processing center at the Cape a decade ago: $2 billion
Amount SpaceX spent to refurbish SLC-40, build a hangar for rockets, and payload processing center about a decade ago: $20 million.
I work in the aviation sector, and I can tell you that for all intents and purposes Russian aviation has - at best - about three weeks before it’s show over.
One aspect is the fact that airspace available to Russian aircraft is very, very limited now. However, there is more: