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[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 13 hours ago

Ah, I didn't realize you were referring exclusively to crewed missions. Yes, you are correct, the first crewed Falcon 9 launch was in 2020. The flew plenty of uncrewed commercial missions prior to that, though.

It seems like crewed European launch vehicles have a similarly slow timeline to reusable European launch vehicles.