[AnotherUnixGeek]

It's a good thing to have multiple vendors capable of providing launch capabilities - problem is that Blue Origin's New Glenn has never launched yet, and there's a very real possibility that it will not launch in 2024, either.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The government is insane. This is a CROOKED politically motivated procurement.

Compare BlueOrigin with NOTHING accomplished yet versus SpaceX:

SpaceX 288 TOTAL launches since inception (5x Falcon 1, 275x Falcon 9, 8x Falcon Heavy)

SpaceX Landing Attempts Total
259 (Total) – 206 (droneship), 53 (land)
Successful Landings Total
248 (Total) – 196 (droneship), 52 (land)
Most Landing Successes in a Row - 174 (current streak which began after Starlink v1-19)
Overall Landing Success Rate:
95.75% (Overall)
33.3% (2015)
62.5% (2016)
100% (2017)
85.7% (2018)
93.75% (2019)
92% (2020)
96.77% (2021)
100% (2022)
100% (2023)

2023
81 Falcon 9
4 Falcon Heavy
2 Starships
87 landings (100% success)
Launch rate: 3.81 days
Manned flights: Likely four but maybe even five or six

2022
60 Falcon 9 (100% success)
1 Falcon Heavy (100% success)
32 of these were for Starlink satellites
60 Landings (100% success)
Launched 1,722 Starlink satellites into orbit, over a third of all Starlink satellites launched since the first in 2019
First national security launch for the National Reconnaissance Office
Launched three crewed missions to ISS

[Chad C. Mulligan]

It's a good thing to have multiple vendors capable of providing launch capabilities

That's typical "logistics manager" thinking, and I more than once saw it cost General Motors $$$hundreds of million$$$. Company I worked for had a fifteen year leg up on the technology, and in one case I was project manager when they finally tore out the inferior equipment and replaced it all with ours. But they taught us a lesson, by God! Oh, yes they did! By producing a recall-prone engine for two years.