Elon Musk: SpaceX vs. Boeing Is the Competition NASA Needed to Get Things Done

Elon Musk: Having SpaceX and Boeing compete is a good forcing function to get things done.

“For commercial crew to the Space Station, NASA competed that, it's SpaceX and Boeing. So now, I can tell you the SpaceX team is like, we're going to do this before Boeing. That's for sure.

And I bet at the Boeing team, they're like, we're going to do this before SpaceX. That's good.

It's a good forcing function to get things done. I can't tell you how important that [fixed-price] contracting structure is.”

National Governors Association, July 15, 2017