How George W. Bush and NASA saved SpaceX from financial ruin

MarkWhittington writes: Elon Musk and the people at SpaceX are rightly basking in the afterglow of finally landing the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on a drone barge in the Atlantic. The same flight delivered an expandable module built by Bigelow Aerospace to the International Space Station. But, as Ares Technica points out, the launch, landing, and arrival at the space station would not have taken place had it not been for the generosity of NASA.