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by dasmoth 5018 days ago
Commercially built: mostly true

Commercially operated: much less so (with exceptions, e.g. shuttle processing was kind-of commercial)

Commercially designed: nope.

The commercial resupply contracts may not quite meet everyone's idea of what "commercial" means (and there certainly was/is a lot of NASA scrutiny of the spacecraft -- rather less of the launch vehicle), but it's still a substantially different model from anything NASA has tried on a major project in the last half century.

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This is just not true. NASA outsources pretty much everything to private companies. I designed NASA hardware myself while employed by a private company.