Well, that’s not really how that works. SpaceX doesn’t compete with NASA. In fact, a good portion of funding for their programs comes from NASA. And to call SpaceX the temu of space is pretty silly considering how much more reliable and advanced they are as a launch provider over everyone else on the planet. They’ve dramatically dropped launch costs in the last decade, made landing first stage boosters a boring routine thing, and caught a flying skyscraper from the sky three fucking times. Everyone else is just so far behind and still trying to play “old space” where they drag out government contracts on super dated hardware. Unfortunately, they have a real piece of shit attaching his name to them, clouding the judgement of SpaceX because of their [extremely warranted and correct] hate for elon. Also Unfortunately, that same dipshit might run them into the ground now that he’s making them go public.

I get the hate considering basically literally every other company he’s had a hand in has been pretty shit, however, SpaceX is an exception. And it’s in no small part due to the execs at SpaceX doing a decent enough job of keeping nazi elmo away.