Cape CanaveralSix launch task orders worth about $1.3B went to private firms.

NASA now buys missions in a way that lets it reshuffle cargo as hardware matures.

It also picked 8 companies for Commercial Lunar Payload Services 2, a 10-year delivery contract worth up to $10B combined.

“You want to have the flexibility to move pieces around,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will manage a nuclear-powered rover that will drill about 1 metre for water ice.

How each outlet framed it
Payload
reports Isaacman's case for a buy-now, payload-later model: the CLPS all-or-nothing contract is too rigid for scaling

Sources: Payload