> You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, (snip) your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit diminishes.
"Here at Lockheed, we know just how much is involved in making a successful launch like this and we'd like to congratulate SpaceX. Well done, and we welcome your competition. Ultimately, new competitors push us and advance the market as a whole. Over the course of our 66 consecutive successful missions, we've blah blah blah..."
What else, conceivably, could Lockheed say?