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> It's not that they are a national space program that is supported no matter what because of national security reasons.

To be fair the whims and ego of one of the world's richest men who owns a company as vast as Amazon is a pretty close second to ensuring secured funding.

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Considering how US space program funding is subject to the whims of presidential administrations and congressional funding, New Origin may actually come out on top of this comparison.

How so? SpaceX is a proven launch system at this point, ULA has plenty of business, and SLS isn't going anywhere soon, so there aren't many options for new entrants.

I won't be that sure about SLS anymore with many recent events concerning it: - it failed to do full mission length firing during during the Green Run testing - its main supporter in the Senate Shelby announced he is going to retire - Europa clipper will launch on Falcon Heavy instead of SLS - early Gateway parts have been recently announced as also launching on Falcon Heavy

Not much left for SLS to do & its cost and delays are unly getting more insane by the day.

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