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History of SpaceX. 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.
1 day ago · Whereas the space shuttle had more than 10,000 requirements, Dragon from SpaceX ended up with about 400. Three or four times a week, someone at NASA would come to Lueders and tell her, “I’d ...
1 day ago · A fake-but-full-size banana made history as the first zero-gravity indicator to fly on SpaceX's Starship. The banana flew on Starship's sixth test flight, on Nov. 19, 2024.
1 day ago · SpaceX, American aerospace company founded in 2002 that helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight. It was the first private company to successfully launch and return a spacecraft from Earth orbit and the first to launch a crewed spacecraft and dock it with the International Space Station (ISS). Headquarters are in Hawthorne, California.
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- SpaceX is an American aerospace company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk that helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight. Its name in full is Sp...
- SpaceX is headquartered in Hawthorne, California. Its other sites include launch facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and at Vandenberg Space For...
- SpaceX’s first rocket was the Falcon 1, a two-stage liquid-fueled craft designed to send small satellites into Earth orbit. The Falcon 1 was signif...
- In 2002 SpaceX was created by entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose stated goals were to revolutionize the aerospace industry and to make spaceflight more...
- SpaceX is not a public company. Elon Musk suggested that the long-term goal of achieving regular flights to Mars could conflict with the short-term...
1 day ago · Skimming space, the shiny retro-looking craft descended into the Indian Ocean for a controlled but destructive end to the hourlong demo. It was the sixth test for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket that SpaceX and NASA hope to use to get astronauts back on the moon and eventually Mars.
May 26, 2020 · Space Exploration Technologies Corp. – commonly known as SpaceX – is slated to send two astronauts into space on Wednesday. Despite not yet being 20 years old, the company has already developed a creation myth: on 28 September 2008, its first rocket Falcon 1 launched for the fourth time. "I messed up the first three launches, the first ...
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2 days ago · A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launched for the Europa Clipper mission to study one of Jupiter's 95 moons, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Joe ...
