Comment Re:SpaceX -whoopie! (Score 1) 333
SpaceX's seed money came from Elon Musk's own pockets after he sold PayPal. That seed money paid for The start of SpaceX, the design and building of the Falcon 1 launch system including the first 3 engine and the test launches. Revenue from paid for launches has funded most of the rest of the companie's designs and operations. The government money you are referring to a program that gave money to several rocket companies for design work on heavy launch systems to resupply the ISS. SpaceX got some of that money and it was used as part of the funding to design the Falcon 9.
Seems pretty different to me. See the wikipedia article for an easy source for more complete details.