[ghayes]

I hope you're right about the future, but I wouldn't be so confident in what hasn't yet happened.

Alternatively, SpaceX hasn't launched people into space; NASA has. SpaceX hasn't launched a space station; NASA (and others) have. NASA has larger budgets, but they solve that problem by having larger budgets.

[danielweber]

NASA doesn't have any hardware to put people into space, either. The Orion is them trying to get back into that business, which is just what SpaceX is trying to get into.