If by subsidized you mean that SpaceX is paid to loft cargo and satellites to orbit, then yes they are. Or did you expect them to do it for free?
It's not the crony capitalism that solar and wind companies with political connections are.
He built his companies on 5 billion in subsidies. That they now do contract work is a result of subsidies in the first place.
You paid for it. And you can argue with National Review.
Thanks Vince Ferrer, Moonman62, and SunTzuWu.Both companies (Blue Origin and SpaceX) are working on methane-burning engines; the cryo H O engine used on this suborbital craft won't get to orbit even scaled up. That problem was addressed during the Apollo years by using cryo upper stages but the big booster that got those systems into space used RP-1 (a purified kerosene) oxidized with liquid oxygen -- the same combo he'd used in the V2.