What it took for SpaceX to become a serious space company
>Last month, NASA said it would pay SpaceX its largest single contract ever, $2.6 billion<p>>Boeing, will do the same job but at more than half again the cost—some $4.2 billion.<p>Leaving aside how horribly this is worded, what does this even mean? Two lines later it said Boeing was awarded a contract nearly twice as large.