SpaceX
SpaceX
To revolutionize space transportation.
Information, communication & technology | United States of America | Capacity Building |
Overview
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. In 2010 SpaceX became the first commercial company in history to send a spacecraft into orbit and return it safely to Earth. In May 2012 SpaceX again made history when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial vehicle to successfully attach to the International Space Station something previously accomplished only by governments. In October 2012 and March 2013 Dragon again successfully delivered cargo to and from the space station in its first two official cargo resupply missions for NASA.
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Information, communication & technology | C Corporation | Operating | 1001 - 5,000 employees |
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Rocket Road
Hawthorne, California United States of America