SpaceX's Dragon capsule has flown several times including resupply missions (note: plural) to the Space Station. It's currently being outfitted to be human-rated so that we no longer have to depend on the Russians for rides to the ISS.
I'd understand it if NASA's goal was to provide multiple "paths" for space exploration. But in every press release about Orion, it's as though Dragon doesn't exist. I'm not entirely sure WHY NASA is doing this when they have the COTS program going (SpaceX isn't the only one developing man-rated spacecraft). Sometimes I wonder if it's welfare for the existing "legacy" space contractors.
Just for the record, SpaceX doesn't 'do' product placement advertising.
If SpaceX is first on Mars it'll be because they won a contract from NASA paying them for their services.
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