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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.
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and it was valued at about $350 billion during the latest round of staff share purchases. Musk is worth an estimated $455 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ...
Instead, he invested $100 million to start SpaceX, $70 million to found Tesla and $10 million in SolarCity. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and serves as CEO of the company. He founded Tesla in 2003 ...
A top SpaceX exec, Juncosa, along with Shotwell, is said to oversee the facility and operations of SpaceX’s Starbase location. Bret Johnsen CFO and president of strategic acquisitions group
Using $100 million of the money he made from the sale of PayPal, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company, in 2002. In 2004, Musk was an early investor in electric-vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (later Tesla, Inc.), providing most of the initial financing and assuming the position of the company's chairman.
In April, Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, said the first uncrewed starship to land on Mars would be within five years, with the first people landing on Mars within seven years.