[WalterBright]

SpaceX did not receive government subsidies. Government contracts, yes, but those are payments for services delivered, not subsidies or handouts.

[ericjmorey]

Those contracts are direct subsidies. They would not exist in the private market. Government spending subsidizes whatever it spends on.

[WalterBright]

> Those contracts are direct subsidies.

They are not. You are imputing your own meanings into the word "subsidy". If you buy a Coke from a Coke machine, you are not "subsidizing" the machine's vendor.