You mean ULA and Boing? Costs usually 5 times as much and takes three times as long to develop it, if it works at all in the end.
Why the jealousy about people getting good money for good work?
Why the jealousy about people getting good money for good work?
This ruffles the feathers of a certain sort of "space commie", who have traditionally hoped that exploration of space would be impossible for capitalism, leaving space as the great utopia for the future of state-run communism. This was always a dumb point of view, but SpaceX has them particularly upset now because NASA is less involved in the design process than ever before, and it's becoming apparent that capitalism has no trouble getting to space.