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Entry to SpaceX's headquarters, showing the Dragon capsule used in the COTS Demo Flight 1, a Falcon 9's landing leg and the glassy control room. This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk.
SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars. In 2008, when SpaceX was almost bankrupt, Falcon 1 successfully launched into orbit after three failed launch attempts.
In July 2010, [25] after the final launch of Falcon 1 a year prior, [26] SpaceX presented launch vehicle and Mars space tug concepts at a conference. The launch vehicle concepts were called Falcon X (later named Falcon 9), Falcon X Heavy (later named Falcon Heavy), and Falcon XX (later named Starship); the largest of all was the Falcon XX with ...
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission may wind down this weekend. Here are all the ways its crew of four citizen astronauts has made history so far. ‘A giant leap’: Why a tech billionaire’s climb ...
The SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman says frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is another question. ... The SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman says frequent ...
SpaceX made history this week. (But don't get excited. It does this most weeks.) SpaceX's Falcon 9 makes a pretty picture. Source: SpaceX Actually... on second thought, go ahead: Get excited. Elon ...
SpaceX Mars colonization program (colloquially also referred to as Occupy Mars) [1] is a planned objective of the company SpaceX and particularly of its founder Elon Musk to colonize Mars. The main element of this ambition is the plan to establish a self-sustained large scale settlement and colony on Mars, claiming self-determination under ...
In addition to SpaceX's own privately funded plans for an eventual Mars mission, NASA Ames Research Center had developed a concept called Red Dragon. Red Dragon was to be a low-cost Mars mission that would use Falcon Heavy as the launch vehicle and trans-Martian injection vehicle, and the SpaceX Dragon 2-based capsule to enter the atmosphere of ...