NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.

Yeah who is going to deliver faster and more reliable than SpaceX? Boeing? LM?

Doubt

I don't know who else can, but I do seriously doubt SpaceX is going to be able to deliver within the next decade or so either.

"Not within the next decade" (e.g. not until 2041) is a long time.

The first prototype of Starship only did its first hop in July 2019, so 6 years ago. The first flight integrated test only happened 2,5 years ago.

Nowadays they can return to Earth already and catch the booster. Why would you expect the rest of the development to drag until 2041?

Well that's just the empty booster; what they plan to do next with v3 is refueling in space, but what I haven't heard anything about yet is landing on the moon, crew compartiments, cargo, and launching again. Any one of those is years of development and testing.

I mean don't get me wrong, it's exciting and I'm grateful to be alive for these developments along with all access insight in the process and high definition video of the tests and I really hope they make it. But it won't be fast or cheap.