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by bpodgursky 485 days ago
I get the sentiment, but NASA doesn't really compete with SpaceX on anything. They pay SpaceX for launches.

NASA has essentially 0 in-house manufacturing nowdays. Separate question whether that's a good thing, but that's not something the current NASA headcount is doing.

If anything, slowing down NASA slows down launch cadence which hurts SpaceX.

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> They pay SpaceX for launches.

Sounds like it is easier to cut out the middleman, eventually? (Only half-joking)