Total revenue that SpaceX will receive from NASA this year is ~$1B out of ~$15B total, so ~7%.Moreover, NASA is paying SpaceX for astronaut & cargo transport to the Space Station, launching research satellites and some work for returning to the Moon.All of these contracts were won in competitive bids, so the government would either be paying a lot more or, in some cases such as astronaut transport, have no other means of safely getting the job done.There are zero handouts. Zero. ...

Tesla buying @UnpluggedTesla could make sense. Up Fit unlocks commercial fleet, and government contracts, which is where the most profit is.Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog):I posted this four years ago, but I think it’s more true now than ever.Tesla should buy Unplugged. But not just as a Performance division. What they are doing with UP FIT unlocks large gov & commercial fleet purchases that can improve utilization.They also have some https://t.co/tUd08SzyHz ...

- [Reporter] Amid the fallout between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump- - I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot. - [Reporter] Musk threatened to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.That's a big deal for US space missions. - Dragon has been the only US spacecraft launched by a US space company transporting astronauts to and from the station from the US. - I find this to be disconcerting how quickly this went to the threatening from contracts that's not good for the United States.- [Re ...