What you don't say is that NASA was uber expensive in their innovation, with things like not using common CPUs because they were not well tested. And nobody takes risks there anymore.
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is mainly that SpaceX cares about cost.
Or we can say that NASA has incentives to absurdly increase cost, like any bureaucracy.
There is no way the DC-X could have been developed without increasing enormously the budget (and taxes from Americans). That was the reason it was not done.
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is mainly that SpaceX cares about cost.
Or we can say that NASA has incentives to absurdly increase cost, like any bureaucracy.
There is no way the DC-X could have been developed without increasing enormously the budget (and taxes from Americans). That was the reason it was not done.