I think (hopefully) more people are aware of the general discrepancy of what the space program gets ($24B/y) and what we spend on military operations ($721B/y) Source: https://hackerztrickz.com/pldt...

https://hackerztrickz.com/pldt... Really SpaceX has changed the launch market to such a degree that the "legacy" space providers were caught so off guard that there is a scramble to catch up. Everyone did not seem to believe Falcon 9 would work at all, much less so well and so economically that have eaten up such a large part of the launch business that they cannot even rely on future launch missions to fund this new tech they have been forced to develop to hope to be competitive in the future.