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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by throw0101a on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:09AM (#28047810)
> For what it’s worth, NASA doesn’t directly build much. Even the Apollo program was a huge web of private vendors (many who still exist today).

All created because the government wanted something done and was willing to cut a check:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State

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