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The idea of fixed price contracts. so i've got to ask you, how do you know that corners won't be cut, given that these private companies, they won't want to lose money? because we don't launch until it's safe. and it's nasa that says whether or not it's safe to launch. that's 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, nasa's total budget. i think we have somewhere... a quarter of our spending is going to small businesses. we bring small businesses in...

Or not it's safe to launch. that's 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, nasa's 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 directly. and an example of that i mentioned is the eclipse missions, which are going to... three of...