The Artemis program and other contracts fund the bulk of Starship development. NASA has poured billions into SpaceX and they're SpaceX's largest "investor" by far, except NASA doesn't take equity and treats it as "pre-funding" an eventual contract (which would also pay per launch).
Starship is (likely) to be mostly (up to 60% to 70% or so) NASA funded.
Now you are just making things up. SpaceX definitely needed the COTS contract to build the Falcon 9, but NASA got a massive cut in launch costs out of it.
NASA has contributed very little to Starship development. The in orbit refueling experiment contract is tiny, as is their Artemis contract.
And Musk used a Falcon to promote SpaceX in Washington DC, what’s your point?
The Artemis program and other contracts fund the bulk of Starship development. NASA has poured billions into SpaceX and they're SpaceX's largest "investor" by far, except NASA doesn't take equity and treats it as "pre-funding" an eventual contract (which would also pay per launch).
Starship is (likely) to be mostly (up to 60% to 70% or so) NASA funded.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-names-companies-to-d...
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1316417597257129985
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1316421539521327109
Re: early SpaceX history.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=903