Because NASA is absurdity inefficient when developing technology. That's why SLS is such a problem child, and why they abandoned their new space suits, which were already years in development and consumed billions of dollars. They were recently outsourced to a private company which is expected to do it in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the price.
A lot of those 10 billion would go to aerospace contractors either way. It's not like NASA would spend all that money in-house.
Because NASA hasn't done anything useful at a reasonable cost in decades.
I'd rather a somewhat inflated cost to make the research public. Also private equity doesn't mean it's not wasted. 37 billion dollars for a forum.
Musk really living rent free eh?
How many rockets do you think NASA themselves have R&D'd?