The rise of SpaceX and the future of Elon Musk's Mars dream

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What started as Elon Musk's vision to create a science experiment on Mars has turned into a powerhouse in the aerospace industry, shipping private satellites, NASA missions and military cargo. Here's the story of SpaceX and what comes next.

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In less than two decades, SpaceX went from Elon Musk's dream of a greenhouse experiment on Mars to conducting the majority of U.S. rocket launches.

div > div.group > p:first-child"> The early years of SpaceX reveal a company that teetered on the edge of dying out, as Musk has said. After three unsuccessful attempts to reach orbit, his team scrounged together enough parts for a fourth rocket, and SpaceX made history with its Falcon 1 rocket. While Musk provided the vision, his company was not an overnight success. Key people, such as employees like now President and COO Gwynne Shotwell and investors like the members of the Founders Fund, helped forge SpaceX into the business it is today. SpaceX has won billions of dollars in NASA and Air Force launch contracts. It also carries payloads for private companies.

Now SpaceX is valued at over $30 billion and has more than 6,000 employees around the country. The company is launching rapidly, with a backlog of orders for its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. SpaceX is facing its greatest challenge yet in 2019: Launching astronauts for NASA. If Musk's long-term goal of sending humans to Mars is going to be realized, SpaceX must be able to regularly and safely launch astronauts into orbit.

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Oh, and Republicans defunded NASA Started making our astronauts rent rides into space from fuked up Russia. We would be on Mars by now if it wasn't 4 the GOP and this...

Thats why you buy Tesla..I'd buy SpaceX as well if I could

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elonmusk is an Ayn Randian heroic figure. I'm glad there are wealthy people who have adventurous vision.

28delayslater Minor constructive criticism from a musk expert, the part where the professor mentions 'the very large composite...' and you guys show a section piece of BFR at the time, he's talking about the black tank that SpaceX exploded on video I believe

28delayslater GwynneShotwell you never said who your role model is?

LOL. Valuation is meaningless. Tesla is a $44B valued company yet it has lost billions of the years and most of its profits has come from tax credits sales.

That's great

Elon is the best thing that happen to America in a very long time

It is amazing what elonmusk has accomplished in the past 16 years and there more yet to come.

AngelNDevil2 While spreads disinformation about Tesla...

And media is still proclaiming that elonmusk is talking nonsense and is a dreamer.....

That should mix the atmosphere enough to destroy the heat pump we live on. There goes your weather stability.

Elon Musk - 'From those first days, where myself and the team were picking up bits of rocket off the reef, things have come a long way thank goodness.'

The smartest man in the world. ;)

Cc: BurtFolsom, I don’t know if you have seen this 18 minute video. I think it is really good. I think It should give insight in determining if he’s a political or market entrepreneur at least with SpaceX.

28delayslater Now do Tesla: OK, You won't. $50-60B with 50,000 employees.

I'm glad that future of humanity is in hands of cool dudes like elonmusk

SpaceX was built because Obama sold us out. Where is our once great space program that was leading the world? That's right, it no longer exists. We need our United States Space Program leading the world. Not a private business who has no allegiance to anyone but themselves.

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