Those subsidies also went to Boing and ULA, who also bid on those contracts.
This is such a debunked argument but I guess its undebunkable because its a branch you can hang onto about how the only reason SpaceX exists is the government.
Question is why hasn't Blue Origin managed the same then, or Arianaspace in the EU.
> Question is why hasn't Blue Origin managed the same then, or ArianeSpace ...
Or any of hundreds of other national space programs and companies, in countries which would have been ecstatic to pay 10X the US Govt's "subsidies to SpaceX", to put themselves or their nation's company into SpaceX's current position of utter global dominance.
This is such a debunked argument but I guess its undebunkable because its a branch you can hang onto about how the only reason SpaceX exists is the government. Question is why hasn't Blue Origin managed the same then, or Arianaspace in the EU.