Radish says

"SpaceX is impressive, but it will be a few years, maybe decades, before you can say 'private industry does space faster, cheaper, and better than the feds ever did' and be taken seriously."

If you had listed the dollar amounts spent for each of those, and included the Constellation/Orion/Ares project in your list, you'd see why so many people already take it seriously.

The SpaceX Dragon has already been manned while in space, by the way. In two separate missions.


Get back to me when they have sent a man into space, and when they have landed a man on the Moon.