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But then he puts rockets into space. So not just hype?

It's a massive amount of hype for something we've been doing for 50 years.

Except for the landing and reusing part, no? (Yes, they recaptured and reused the Shuttle's SRBs, but it's a different scale and the economics are very different.)

The landing part was cool, but considering the extra fuel/weight required to do it then it seems to be more hype than practicalness too.

I'm not saying he doesn't do some cool stuff, but everything he does gets talked up like it's the second coming.

SpaceX produces rockets capable of carrying heavier payloads than the competition, and for a fraction of the cost.

EV's would not be a thing right now if it weren't for Tesla, and the other co-founders would've failed if it weren't for Elon.

The hype is real.

"We" haven't, the governments of the world have.

Hyped or not, the privatization and commoditization of space travel is new and interesting.

I'm biased on the matter, but I believe it would be interesting if we had more focus on open sourcing space technologies too.

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