NASA&#x27;s achievements have been impressive, to be sure.  I don&#x27;t want to discount that.  However, it has accumulated some inefficiencies and some stagnation over the decades.<p>What NASA has achieved, they&#x27;ve done so with over $1 trillion in inflation-adjusted capital funds over the decades, that have been allocated to them.<p>What is debatable is whether or not they&#x27;ve made or always made efficient use of the capital they&#x27;ve been allocated.<p>Space X has innovated on a number of fronts with less than 1500 employees and only a fraction of the capital that NASA has been allocated.  For one, the Space Shuttle program was costing the U.S. $450 million+ per launch.  A Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million.  There is proof that he can allocate capital better than the government.