BREAKING: Trump just confirmed that Elon Musk will be his “cost cutter” and will oversee the firing of many federal employees to cut spending by trillions of dollars, and he will do it for FREE
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Elon Musk is speaking out against government subsidies. Here’s a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received.
SpaceX lands a $2.89 billion contract with NASA in April 2021
In April, NASA selected Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX for a $2.89 billion contract to work toward landing “commercial” humans on the moon. Musk beat out Jeff Bezos’s aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin for the contract, which gives NASA use of Musk’s Starship spacecraft to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon. Musk’s company has been developing the spacecraft with the intent of taking the first humans to Mars.
SpaceX signs a $653 million contract with the US Air Force in 2020
The US Air Force has joined in on the SpaceX action as well. In 2020, Musk’s SpaceX and United Launch Alliance won two contracts for National Security Space “launch services” worth a combined $653 million, which they will provide between 2022 and 2027. The competition started from a US endeavor to replace Russian rocket technology.
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