You will be waiting a long time. The commercial crew program has been a great success for NASA, and has eliminated the US reliance on Russian Soyuz capsules for crewed spaceflight. It would likely have been lengthier and costlier if NASA had stuck with the Constellation program. Private rockets are here to stay, and that's a good thing for spaceflight.
Yeah but if NASA had been financed properly through the years they wouldn't need the private sector to take their place.
Hell, one is there to make profit, the other is there for research, it never ends up cheaper in the long run to rely on someone who's there to profit from you.
not neccessarily. NASA failed to achieve an economical space launch vehicle in 50 years, while private companies did it in 10.
The Apollo program that landed humans on the moon was built by private industry. There is a place for government and there is a place for industry.
Approximately 400,000 skilled people contributed to NASA’s success in putting the first man on the Moon. In the mid-1960s, the agency had 33,200 federal employees and 377,000 contractors. 1
That being said, NASA has a vital role in space as explorers and scientists - but for raw transportation of goods and heavy cargo, that is best handled largely by contractors.
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