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[–] 91 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    NASA does not build it's own rockets (anymore) they make the payloads. NASA will never make rockets as good/cheap as a companies like ULA and SpaceX.

    Take a look at the cluster fuck that is the SLS if you want an example

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Can Space X make the payloads?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Uh, basically no.

    NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn't really make a lot of sense.

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