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Information × Registration Number 2116U002707, Article popup.category Thesis Title popup.author popup.publication 01-01-2016 popup.source_user Сумський державний університет popup.source http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/44883 popup.publisher Sumy State University Description Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company with its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, USA. It was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk with the goal of creating the technologies to reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonization of Mars. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, both of which were designed from conception to eventually become reusable, and the Dragon spacecraft which is flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with cargo. A manned version of Dragon is in development. popup.nrat_date 2025-05-12 Close