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Well, there's "as a general rule" and then there's "A billionaire wanted to save a negligible amount of money", I personally assume the latter when talking about these parasites
Luckily in this case, the people who build the rocket aren’t allowed to launch them for this very reason. Even NASA has a completely different team of people who launch rockets (in Florida) than who build them (Alabama, Mississippi, and others) or run the mission (Houston).
The actual launch range is run by the Space Force and they have the final say on when and where you can launch and where you can’t be during launch (officially called an exclusion zone).
So its not the same people that do everything but why does this not encourage being cheapstakes at any of these steps? Im glad there's oversight but I can't grasp how it works just yet
Well there’s always going to be penny pinching and greed, but because each team‘s job is singular and siloed, their success or failure is based on their only job. So there is a separation of pride. The launch team’s only job is to launch the rocket, they have no vested interest in the mission or how well it was built. So a cost saving move that would help the mission but hinder launching the rocket isn’t one that would be made by the launch team.
That being said, nothing says that this won’t change as soon as more privatization happens in this sector.