That used to be NASA's job. They were far more competent and lost way less spacecraft than Space X did
NASA used to be competent... From the 1950s until the early 1980s But then it turned in to a DEI jobs program. They couldn't keep the STS from exploding let alone advance past it. We where forced to hire the Russians for rides to the ISS. Humiliating.
Also, if Elon had his way, we'd be swimming in Indians.
Well good thing he doesn't have his way, or else the USA would be swimming in your fellow countrymen.
Falcon 9 has a 99% success rate on their hundreds of contract missions. Falcon Heavy is at 100% last I checked on contract missions.
SpaceX blows shit up pushing the envelope with experimental stuff trying to reach reusable self landing spacecraft. They aren't losing customer cargo doing it. Yet people think those explosions are the normal when in reality the Falcon's are in the background grinding out boring contract missions day in and day out with no coverage.
Here is a question: How many HUMANS has SpaceX lost compared to NASA? I'll give NASA a pass for the early "space race" since they where starting from zero and needed to get there at all costs to beat the USSR. So lets just talk about the 1980s STS program.
How many people has NASA's STS killed compared to all of SpaceX?
SpaceX blows shit up constantly until they master it, THEN they put humans on it. It seems to be a much better system compared to the massive NASA bureaucracy that chokes out any innovation that just ends in failure anyways.
You said his companies are failures. They are not.
Is Elon a sperg? Yes. Should he chill the fuck out? Yes.
But his companies are not failures. It's clear you can't separate one thing from the other. You are the type of person who would have called for the cancellation of the Explorer and Apollo programs because the program leads where all ex-nazi's.