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SpaceX

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Head office

Hawthorne, California, United States

Type

Feeds

Size

1001-5000 Employees

Founding year

2002

Sector

Space

BRANCHES

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California, United States

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Brevard County, Florida, United States

McGregor, McLennan County, Texas, United States

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Mission

"You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great - and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars." - Elon Musk

Overview

About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary.

SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.