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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.
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.
Gwynne Shotwell (née Rowley, previously Gurevich; born November 23, 1963 [1]) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [3] [4] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[5] [6] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
SpaceX, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces work closely together by means of governmental contracts. [9] 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.
Stephen T. Jurvetson (born March 1, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. [3] Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), he was an early investor in Hotmail, Memphis Meats, Mythic and Nervana Systems. [4]
Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners, a growth firm that has invested in SpaceX, Tesla, the Boring Company, and Neuralink. Luke Nosek Cofounder of PayPal and Gigafund
Anna Menon (née Wilhelm; born December 24, 1985) is an American engineer employed by SpaceX as lead space operations and a mission director. She flew on Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX on behalf of Jared Isaacman.