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How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?
Because we live in clown world
They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.
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
Can Space X make the payloads?
SpaceX can make the payloads, and they already do in the form of starlink.
NASA carries out research/experiments something that spaceX probably doesn't want to compete in since for the most part it does not pay
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.
So it sounds like they are codependent at this point. The bigger the nasa budget the better for space X.
I mean, that's always been the case. That's literally spaceX's primary job, putting things in space for NASA. It's the same for every launch provider in the US.
Federal funding for space exploration?