• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      SpaceX does one thing though… Well, three things. Rocket development, launch services and starlink.

      NASA does a whole lot more, they have 10 times as many employees and far more suppliers than SpaceX does. SpaceX is basically a service provider for NASA.

      This is kind of like saying that Lockheed Martin is more efficient than the department of defense.

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        11 months ago

        SpaceX gets shit into space cheaper than NASA. Let’s just compare the services that both provide and not move goal posts.

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            11 months ago

            Ok… So what does NASA do that overlaps with SpaceX? Apparently nothing. NASA is 100% dependent on private rockets. Are we supposed to call that a win or a loss?

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      11 months ago

      SpaceX would never exist if there was no NASA. Before government programs that can pioneer and not have to be “profitable” no company can exist.

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      11 months ago

      Definitely more efficient than NASA today. But private companies wouldn’t have been able to pull off the moon landing, which was NASA’s great accomplishment.

      There’s a place for government programs and enormous piles of money.

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      11 months ago

      Anything is more efficient without cost+ contracts, where the cost is covered + a fixed percentage profit on top.

      Those kinds of deals make the cost explode somehow. Who would have thought.