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SpaceX
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.
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