According to foreign media reports, billionaire Elon Musk seems to have succeeded in every project he has chosen so far, such as Tesla and SpaceX. But according to him, the process is far from plain sailing. SpaceX was once almost bankrupt, and he had no idea how to save the company p> < p > on Wednesday, US local time, musk responded to a post on twitter with a video of his interview with CBS reporter Scott Pelley in 2012. In the video, Perry asked, "has NASA ever saved you?" Musk replied positively, "yes, they saved me! This is true both economically and emotionally. I want to tell you that they have definitely helped me a lot. " p> < p > this video has been clicked more than 220000 times. Musk wrote in response to this tweet: "it's really true!" In a subsequent tweet, he wrote: "I really love NASA, and I always do. I just want to say thank you to those government officials who, despite great pressure, strive to ensure that the right thing happens. " p> < p > NASA's rescue of SpaceX occurred in 2008. At that time, the space company was in a difficult situation. Its Falcon 1 rocket had suffered three failures before its fourth launch in September 2008. SpaceX was on the verge of bankruptcy at the end of 2008 and didn't even have enough money to pay employees. But just two days before Christmas, NASA announced that it would award SpaceX a commercial freight contract for 12 flights worth $1.6 billion p> < p > in response to a question about the video posted on twitter, musk said: "I thought we must have failed. At that time, we were just a small company. Only one of the four rocket launches went into orbit. I had almost nothing in my pocket. But just a few days before Christmas, NASA suddenly called and told us that it had won 12 commercial freight contracts. " p> < p > musk admitted in an interview that when he received a call from NASA, his hands trembled with excitement and he couldn't even hold the phone. He just said, "I love you!" p> < p > < p > musk founded SpaceX in 2002 to reduce the cost of space flight so that he can colonize Mars one day. By the time of the latest round of financing in April 2021, SpaceX was valued at $74 billion( (small)