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Look at spacex they are more efficient then nasa
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.
SpaceX gets shit into space cheaper than NASA. Let's just compare the services that both provide and not move goal posts.
Yeah, but NASA hasn't even had launch capabilities since what, 2006?
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?
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.
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.
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.
there's an exception to the rule