[bidivia]

>SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings

I would say the ground breaking things were done by amateurs like Mr Von Braun as children playing with rockets.

What governments(Hitler first, then US and Russia) did was escalating something that was already proven and worked, and that was proven my amateurs.

The flights of Otto Lilienthal or the Wright brothers were extremely short, but they were the groundbreaking things that governments later escalated very fast.

I certainly believe that break even will be proven by private companies, not by Governments bureaucracies that continuously say that fusion in 30 years is reasonable.

After breakeven is proven, there will be a tsunami of investments from Governments just like with aviation or rockets.