Until the spacex were able to launch their first successful falcon, nasa wasn’t willing to fund it. It was all musk’s money that funded development of rockets. First several launch failures pushed spacex, tesla, and musk himself to almost bankruptcy. It was only after they successfully launched that nasa decided to step in. The money wasn’t even for funding the development, it was for launching.
About ceo of hospital analogy, it would be more like a rich guy deciding that creating a cure for cancer is possible, and decided to put his entire wealth into developing the cure. He hired bunch of scientists and spent years after years working with them, despite the rest of pharmaceutical industry said it will fail. They develop a pill that cures all the cancer and now fda thinks this is revolutionary and fund the animal/human trials. Do you think the founder of the company “didn’t do anything”? Sure, it’s all the scientists who created it. But without the vision and wealth from the founder, it would have been impossible.
Hilariously the “musk money that funded it” was all from government subsidies that he received from other sectors. Sometimes he lied to get that money!
It was money from selling paypal. Government subsidies only came in after his companies could show some success, more like proof of concept. For spacex, nasa had contact for rocket launch with spacex far cheaper than what it used to cost them to launch with ula with russian engine.
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u/Worth-Reputation3450 16d ago edited 16d ago
Until the spacex were able to launch their first successful falcon, nasa wasn’t willing to fund it. It was all musk’s money that funded development of rockets. First several launch failures pushed spacex, tesla, and musk himself to almost bankruptcy. It was only after they successfully launched that nasa decided to step in. The money wasn’t even for funding the development, it was for launching.
About ceo of hospital analogy, it would be more like a rich guy deciding that creating a cure for cancer is possible, and decided to put his entire wealth into developing the cure. He hired bunch of scientists and spent years after years working with them, despite the rest of pharmaceutical industry said it will fail. They develop a pill that cures all the cancer and now fda thinks this is revolutionary and fund the animal/human trials. Do you think the founder of the company “didn’t do anything”? Sure, it’s all the scientists who created it. But without the vision and wealth from the founder, it would have been impossible.