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I was actually thinking more about SpaceX. They promised technology that was faster (in terms of development speed) and cheaper.

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Isn't that because they could work outside many bureaucratic regulations and Musk's focus on the essential?

Regulations don't prevent you from inventing new things, only from inflicting them onto the whole of the society. But they didn't invent anything useful in the first place, so arguing that regulations were what stopped them is silly.

Regulation was a wrong word.

Disclaimer: I don't know much about how SpaceX or NASA's finances work. But I assumed that, due to their tighter coupling with a government, NASA has less leeway in their decisions of which technologies to research compared to SpaceX.

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