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The idea of fixed price contracts. so ive got to ask you, how do you know that corners wont be cut, given that these private companies, they wont want to lose money? because we dont launch until its safe. and its nasa that says whether or not its safe to launch. thats the bottom line answer. are you overreliant, do you think, just on a handful of small companies, or is that just inevitable given the nature of the space industry? well, take, for example, nasas total budget. i think we have somewh...

Or not its safe to launch. thats the bottom line answer. are you overreliant, do you think, just on a handful of small companies, or is that just inevitable given the nature of the space industry? well, take, for example, nasas total budget. i think we have somewhere... a quarter of our spending is going to small businesses. we bring small businesses in at every part of our business, in our science and our earth science, in the exploration programme. but in many cases, we do small businesses dir...