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      • SpaceX is the first private company to develop a liquid-propellant rocket that has reached orbit; to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft; to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station; and to send astronauts to the International Space Station.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SpaceXSpaceX - Wikipedia

    Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

  3. www.spacex.com › mission › indexSpaceX - Mission

    SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

    • SpaceX founder Elon Musk. SpaceX was founded by Musk, a South African-born businessman and entrepreneur. At age 30, Musk made his initial fortune by selling his two successful companies: Zip2, which he sold for $307 million in 1999, and PayPal, which eBay purchased for $1.5 billion in 2002, The New York Times reported.
    • SpaceX's first rocket: Falcon 1. Musk was already an experienced businessman when he started SpaceX, and he strongly believed that more frequent and more reliable launches would bring down the cost of exploration.
    • Better rockets: Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy. The workhorse rocket of the SpaceX fleet is the Falcon 9, and one of its features is reusability. Falcon 9 hefts much more cargo than Falcon 1: 28,991 lbs.
    • SpaceX Dragon: Cargo missions to ISS. The next and most crucial milestone for SpaceX was space station delivery. Dragon, riding a Falcon 9 rocket, delivered its first cargo to the space station in May 2012 under a test flight for the COTS program.
    • Who is Elon Musk and why is he building rockets? Musk (b. 1971) is a South African-born entrepreneur with degrees in business and physics from the University of Pennsylvania—and he’s launching rockets because he just kind of decided to.
    • What Has SpaceX Done That Other Companies Haven’t? SpaceX scored its first big headline in 2010, when it became the first private company to launch a payload into orbit and return it to Earth intact—something only government agencies like NASA or Russia’s Roscosmos had done before.
    • Are SpaceX Rockets Special? Progress in rocketry is incremental. The basic science of liquid-fueled rockets hasn’t changed much since the days of Robert Goddard.
    • How Close Is SpaceX To Flying A Crew? Very close—maybe. The company has used its Dragon spacecraft to make uncrewed cargo runs to the ISS. The Dragon was designed with crew compatibility in mind, which means the ship has already proven its basic spaceworthiness, though it has a good way to go before its life support systems are similarly proven.
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    REWATCH. RECENT LAUNCH. Starlink Mission. REWATCH. ADVANCING HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT. LEARN MORE. TO MAKE LIFE MULTIPLANETARY. LEARN MORE. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

  5. Apr 23, 2019 · What is SpaceX, who owns it and where is is based? Founded in 2002, SpaceX is the creation of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, now its CEO and chief designer. Musk, who founded what became...