NASA’s confidence in SpaceX and Boeing may be wavering

To say that NASA bet big on U.S. companies Boeing and SpaceX to provide solutions for manned spaceflight would be a colossal understatement. The space agency basically put all its eggs in two baskets, and neither of them seem to be capable of staying on track, with countless delays, setbacks, and the cost overruns that accompany them.

I am not the least surprised.. we preferably seeing them sending stuff to the moon than anything of Mars programs

More info at https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasa-confidence-spacex-boeing-may-214301634.html

well, NASA is going into the Flight Readiness Review for the Dragon 2 Demo mission...sounds like they are pretty confident to me
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/spacex-gains-frr-green-light-dm-1-iss/

Is there some way I can invest in the “SpaceX Doubters Club”? Some fund where I get paid every time someone posts on Social Media about how SpaceX is going to fail, followed shortly after by SpaceX totally nailing the next step? Gwynn Shotwell hands the doubters’ asses to them every. single. time.

My gods, I’d be a millionaire, AND we’d have people walking on Mars.

Can you imagine where SpaceX would be if they had the money that was/is being spent on SLS/Orion?

Here is the FRR press conference...NASA is good to go

Sounds like it was written by someone who is looking in from the outside.

.gov agencies like to avoid risk as much as possible. Even the US Military has risk management frameworks...heck the US Army has risk assessment procedures that element leaders are taught to do on the fly, in the field. There's also forms and entire field manuals on how to avoid risk.

Identifying a risk is the first step in almost any RMF framework out there, and that's all NASA is doing. They're just basically letting these companies know that they're going to have to prove a few things before they get the NASA stamp of approval, so to speak.

TL;DR. Identifying risk isn't the same as not being interested in pursuing said risk.

"By Friday evening, the meeting was over and, among the NASA and SpaceX officials, the verdict was in—Dragon was ready for its demonstration mission as part of the commercial crew program on March 2. Launch time for the Falcon 9 rocket is 2:48am ET (07:48 UTC), from Kennedy Space Center. “I’m ready to fly," NASA's commercial crew program manager, Kathy Lueders, said succinctly."

https://arstechnica.com/science/201...sa-review-now-set-for-test-flight-on-march-2/

Their confidence is not wavering. They are just making sure processes are followed and risks controlled, hoping to get the right balance between schedule and risk.

im not an expert by a long shot but im pretty sure nasa is just as bad at meeting deadlines