With the imminent failure of the Astrobotic Peregrine mission to the Moon NASA are very blasé about several hundred million dollars of someone else's money heading in the general direction of "away".
'Speaking to the BBC last month, deputy administrator Pam Melroy, said: "What we have learned from our commercial partners is if we have a high enough cadence, we can relax some of the requirements that make it so costly, and have a higher risk appetite. And if they fail, the next one is going to learn and succeed." '