Delta 🔥....Do you believe in coincidences?
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But they never really became mainstream until they started launching manned flights.
Not true. They became mainstream to their customer community when they started operation of Falcon 9. The plan for the vehicle was announced in 2005. Its first flight occurred in 2010. Anyone familiar with the industry would have noticed SpaceX as the Newcomer with Promise.
Once they started manned flights, and bringing back boosters for re-use, they became famous. That's a notch above mainstream.
That is somewhat true. But most of the mainstream focus was on the shuttle program until the retirement or on Elon himself and Tesla Motors.
The Shuttle retirement was in 2011, after Falcon 9's first flight. It was clearly regarded as Obama's replacement for the Shuttle. SpaceX's prominence in the market was ramping up at that time. Was SpaceX known to the man in the street? No. Was it already rearranging the marketplace? Yes. The question of who SpaceX was "well known to," should hinge on who depended on its availability. It was certainly well known to customers. (And what does being "well known" have to do with Q's messages? We sort of specialize in that which is not well known.)