Perhaps because this is the creation from the hard work of thousands of gifted and committed people. When SpaceX started I can assure you there was no billiona

Perhaps because this is the creation from the hard work of thousands of gifted and committed people. When SpaceX started I can assure you there was no billionaire involved. Just a guy with a few million he was willing to invest to make space travel a reality for many more people. Secondly, if you don't think NASA was about profit, you don't understand NASA. Who do you think built all the Apollo rockets? Private contractors working for profit. Besides, what is wrong with profit? Profit is what makes things sustainable and allows reinvestment to continually improve. The tech here is way beyond what governments have been able to do so far. It promises to be quite a show. Might blow up again, but they'll learn and build another one. For the record, I find Musk to be a menace, but the team he put together at SpaceX is phenomenal.