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SpaceX Founded
Elon Musk founded SpaceX, and its headquarters is in El Segundo CA. -
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and is also the founder of Tesla. He looks to the future and wants to make space travel inexpensive and more efficient. -
1st Rocket
They had successfully launched the Falcon 9, carrying a Dragon space craft into orbit. The Dragon was to see how efficient, and aerodynamic the space craft was. -
Dragon
The Dragon capsule had attached to the ISS with lots of food, and water for the crew -
U.S Air Force
The US Air Force agrees to work with SpaceX, to certify their rocket for military satellite launches, and SpaceX dropped their lawsuit against them. -
Falcon 9
After 5 tries, the Falcon 9 worked. The idea was that it took 11 satellites to orbit and came back to earth and landed, able to be used again. They got their data for the Grasshopper, which went up into the sky and camp down 3 times. There was no one inside. -
Red Dragon
Elon Musk said that they were going to send a Dragon to mars as soon as 2018. He said with the technology we have it would be easy but getting there would be harder. -
Solar City
The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, bought a company called Solar City. He did this to make solar paneled rockets and to help make Tesla cars cleaner -
5%
Elon Musk gave a speech telling why we arent at Mars yet and how much it would cost. Reusing the rockets and having fuel on board would make it much less pricey, down to 200k. -
220mph on HyperLoop Test Track
The SpaceX vehicle which is like a hyper loop tug boat to propel some student pods. Elon Musk manged to get 220mph in a sealed vacuum.
