Interesting dynamic emerging in this NASA advisory committee meeting. Boeing& #39;s failure on Starliner is being used as an example to favor cost-plus rather than commercial contracts. I.e. NASA would have caught it under traditional contract.

Of course the counter-argument to this is that maybe some traditional companies just can& #39;t thrive in the new world of competitive spaceflight. Maybe you shouldn& #39;t punish companies that can handle fixed price contracts because others can& #39;t.

To be clear this is a fairly common viewpoint among the older guard of aerospace. There& #39;s still a mistrust about "commercial" because they& #39;ve heard about it for so long. A successful Demo-2 flight should go a long way toward dispelling some of these beliefs, I suspect.