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    SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable human colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles including the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets and the Dragon spacecraft. Some key achievements of SpaceX include being the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft; sending the first private spacecraft to the International Space Station; and becoming the first to successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an orbital rocket. SpaceX plans to eventually replace its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon fleet with the Starship launch system which is intended to be fully reusable.

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    SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable human colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles including the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets and the Dragon spacecraft. Some key achievements of SpaceX include being the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft; sending the first private spacecraft to the International Space Station; and becoming the first to successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an orbital rocket. SpaceX plans to eventually replace its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon fleet with the Starship launch system which is intended to be fully reusable.

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    Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

    , trading
    as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace
    manufacturer and space transportation services
    company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
    It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the
    goal of reducing space transportation costs to
    enable the colonization of Mars.[7][8][9] SpaceX has
    developed several launch vehicles and the Dragon
    spacecraft.
    SpaceX's achievements include the first privately
    funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit
    (Falcon 1 in 2008),[10] the first private company to
    successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft
    (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to
    send a spacecraft to the International Space Station
    (Dragon in 2012),[11] the first propulsive landing
    for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first
    reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), and
    the first private company to launch an object into
    orbit around the sun (Falcon Heavy's payload of a
    Tesla Roadster in 2018). SpaceX has flown 20[12]
    resupply missions to the International Space
    Station (ISS) under a partnership with NASA.[13]
    NASA also awarded SpaceX a further
    development contract in 2011 to develop and
    demonstrate a human-rated Dragon, which would
    be used to transport astronauts to the ISS and
    return them safely to Earth.[14][self-published source?]
    SpaceX conducted the maiden launch of its
    Dragon 2 spacecraft on a NASA-required
    demonstration flight (Crew Dragon Demo-1) on
    March 2, 2019 and is set to launch its first crewed
    Dragon 2 on May 27, 2020.[15]
    In December 2015, a Falcon 9 accomplished a
    propulsive vertical landing. This was the first such
    achievement by a rocket for orbital spaceflight.[16]
    In April 2016, with the launch of CRS-8, SpaceX
    successfully vertically landed the first stage on an
    ocean drone ship landing platform.[17] In May
    2016, in another first, SpaceX again landed the
    first stage, but during a significantly more
    energetic geostationary transfer orbit mission.[18]
    In March 2017, SpaceX became the first to
    successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an
    orbital rocket.[19] In January 2020, with the third
    launch of the Starlink project, SpaceX became the
    largest commercial satellite constellation operator
    in the world.[20][21]
    In September 2016, CEO Elon Musk unveiled the
    Interplanetary Transport System, a privately
    funded launch system to develop spaceflight
    technology for use in crewed interplanetary
    spaceflight. In 2018, Musk unveiled an updated
    configuration of the system, named Starship,
    which is intended to become the primary SpaceX
    orbital vehicle after the early 2020s, as SpaceX has
    announced it intends to eventually replace its
    existing Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon 2
    fleet with Starship, even in the Earth-orbit satellite
    delivery market.[22][23][24]:24:50–27:05 Starship is
    planned to be fully reusable and will be the largest
    rocket ever on its debut, scheduled for the early
    2020s.

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