Boeing's Starliner is in the same situation. Let's go with operating spacecraft then since technically any rocket can carry people if you shove them in the payload bay (loss of life may occur)
Why is the government buying launches a bad thing? SpaceX provides a service that they want. The money would just have gone to Lockheed and Boeing otherwise
After spending $7 million on restoring a launchpad at the Vandenberg Spaceport, USAF never actually let them use it. Instead of sitting on their hands while waiting for infinite amounts of government paperwork and delays they took charge. In just a few months a new launch site was constructed entirely from scratch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
When you don't have a bottomless source of taxpayer money you can't afford to be slow.
That hasn't launched crew yet so not in its operational phase.
Meanwhile the Russians can enjoy their shitty cramped Soyuzπ€£
And soon all that power will take us to the moon once again π
Falcon 9/Heavy is such a game changer for the space industry. Don't even get me started on Starship π
It's insane how Elon has normalized landing an orbital booster more than once per week.
Going to orbit around the moon*
Starship is the lunar lander