That is not NADA.

The answer is ZERO.

The Starship program is paid for "in house"

Most $$ in SpaceX is that of investors.

I would also guess Musk gets various federal perks and tax breaks.

Investors have sunk 100+ billion into SpaceX

Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

— Ron

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"We always knew that excitement is guaranteed today, success not guaranteed." is some of the most sophomoric, quasi "inspirational" dumbass speak I have ever heard....and I spent 30 years in the fucking navy!

I bet Ms. Tice has a zillion copies of "Who Moved My Cheese" in her office.

A really weird scene from what I’ve seen during the launches. They applaud anything. Like The fucking thing could explode on the pad and elmoe’s minions would applaud. And of course every employee is probably hopelessly devoted to him.

They seem to have fixed the problems their first-stage engine sequencer had. On their first launch, a lot of the motors on the first stage weren't firing, but in this one they're all lit up.

I think the biggest problem they're having is they refuse to learn from the history of the rocket business. Everyone else can invent new rockets that don't blow up because they apply the lessons from the old ones that did blow up to the new ones they make. SpaceX "goes their own way" and scatters rocket parts all over the ocean for the first few launches they make.