These same advances could be owned by all of us if we hadn’t spent every year since Kennedy whittling away at NASAs budget to do stuff. The space shuttle was only ever supposed to be temporary but Congress never funded the much better replacements.
SpaceX only brings its shareholders forward, with our tax money. The problem isn’t about the technology but who owns the tech.
That is again due to how they are treated and funding constriction. NASA has not received the same “grace” in failures that you are giving SpaceX. They’d love to do more missions and they’re also better about doing things right. You should know whether your rocket works before it’s launched just like a bridge needs to work as built. NASA also doesn’t get money from it’s missions. Whatever they put in orbit doesn’t generate revenue it is only for public data gathering.
That is such a crass reference to Challenger… SpaceX mishaps so far have not killed people. Will you still be giving them leeway when they do?