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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.
SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars. In 2008, when SpaceX was almost bankrupt, Falcon 1 successfully launched into orbit after three failed launch attempts.
Elon Musk in 2018. Elon Musk is a businessman known predominantly for his leading roles in the automotive company Tesla, Inc. and the space company SpaceX.Musk is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Thomas John Mueller is an American aerospace engineer and rocket engine designer.He was employee No.1 of SpaceX and is the founder and now CEO of Impulse Space. [1]Mueller is best known for his engineering work on the Merlin, Draco, Super Draco and TR-106 rocket engines.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Zip2, founder of X.com which merged with Confinity to form PayPal. Musk later bought a controlling share in Tesla Motors, founded SpaceX, OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, and purchased Twitter (rebranded as X). David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO who later founded Geni.com and Yammer.
He was a board member of Synthetic Genomics, Planet Labs, Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel), [14] Flux, D-Wave, SpaceX, [5] [15] and Tesla. [16] Jurvetson was a member of the Tesla board of directors from 2006 to December 2020.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) [1] is a South African-American [2] entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures , a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017.