Comment by nine_k
13 days ago
But DoD with its weird requirements, and the Congress with its power to finance the project and the desire to bring jobs from it to every state, and the rules of contracting that NASA must follow, are all also part of the state, the way the state ultimately works.
Development contracts for early SpaceX is also an example of NASA contracting rules in action though.
VC has failure as well as successes. State funding is no different.