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founded in 2002, by Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk was born in south Africa, where he taught himself to program even through poverty. he moved to america and aced college, than started his first company, pay-pal. He founded SpaceX when he was 30 year old.
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Tesla has been spacex's main source of income since it's founding.
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SpaceX launches the Falcon 1 for the first time
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The Falcon 1 was the first privately built, liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit
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The Dragon was the first privately funded spacecraft to successfully orbit the earth and be recovered
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The dragon is also the first and only privately funded spacecraft to bring supplies to the ISS
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SpaceX launches the Deep Space Climate Observatory
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a falcon 1 loses helium and explodes on a routine trip to the ISS
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SpaceX continues to develop, and is now working on a moon colony ship
