SpaceX vs. NASA: Speed-to-Market

NASA is clearly slower to market and to iterate than SpaceX.

Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readOct 20, 2022

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By Atif Ansar and Bent Flyvbjerg

Source: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/spacex

In terms of speed-to-market and iterative updates, SpaceX is on average nearly twice as fast as NASA. In terms of actual delivery time, SpaceX projects have a shorter actual duration from the decision to build to completion.†

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Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture

Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford; Professor, IT University of Copenhagen. Writes about project management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/