Nasa is different.  As a wing of the US government many of their innovations were shared.  From a public perspective, all the photos and such taken during Apollo were public domain.  Earthrise, arguably the most well-known image on earth, went strait to public domain.  (This might explain some of the lack of coverage given that all the media feeds were SpaceX-owned and it wasn&#x27;t clear how they were to be shared.)<p>Engineers who worked at Apollo-era Nasa also went on to all sorts of things, carrying lots of knowhow with them.  Even those working for contractors operated under a different regime than today.  But the similar knowhow at SpaceX is today proprietary.  We won&#x27;t see any SpaceX engineers walking over to boeing to replicate the technology, not without lawsuits every which way.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to criticize, just to illustrate that today&#x27;s space-fairing corporations are not interchangeable with Nasa.