> spaceX has done it by raising less than $1.5 billion total NASA has itself given SpaceX more than that. Wikipedia says SpaceX has taken $5 billion from NASA

> spaceX has done it by raising less than $1.5 billion total NASA has itself given SpaceX more than that. Wikipedia says SpaceX has taken $5 billion from NASA, with over $1 billion more from US defense contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#NASA_contracts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#NASA_contracts