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SpaceX was funded by Musk until it started making money. I don't think he was even a billionaire when he founded it.
by ThrowawayTestr 1y ago
SpaceX was funded by Musk until it started making money. I don't think he was even a billionaire when he founded it.
- gamblor956 1y agoIf by funded you mean SpaceX received hundreds of millions in government funding, then yes he funded it himself.... the same way he built Dragon all by himself...
- oskarkk 1y agoThat's how most space launch companies work, they get government contracts to do things for government. ULA (joint venture of Lockheed & Boeing) gets nearly all of its revenue from the government. Musk funded SpaceX until they made enough progress to have NASA consider them worthy of getting a contract for resupplying ISS (and they got other commercial customers).