The two organizations have actually been working together, and in May 2020, they launched the first human flight in spacecraft made by a private company ever.
It costs SpaceX $90 million to launch a rocket — while that’s a lot of money, it’s significantly less than the $380 million its rivals typically charge for the same thing.
SpaceX might have been the first private space exploration company to achieve anything of note, but it’s not the only one in the game. That’s right, Musk has some competitors!