SpaceX vs. NASA: Speed-to-Market

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

By Atif Ansar and Bent Flyvbjerg

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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.†