SpaceX

Founding

Jun 27, 2002

founded in 2002, by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk

Jun 27, 2002

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.

Tesla

Sep 1, 2003

Tesla has been spacex's main source of income since it's founding.

First launch

Jun 19, 2005

SpaceX launches the Falcon 1 for the first time

Falcon 1

Dec 26, 2008

The Falcon 1 was the first privately built, liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit

Dragon

Feb 12, 2010

The Dragon was the first privately funded spacecraft to successfully orbit the earth and be recovered

ISS

Oct 4, 2012

The dragon is also the first and only privately funded spacecraft to bring supplies to the ISS

DSCOVR

Jun 12, 2015

SpaceX launches the Deep Space Climate Observatory

Falcon 1 explosion

Jul 11, 2015

a falcon 1 loses helium and explodes on a routine trip to the ISS

current

Jan 31, 2017

SpaceX continues to develop, and is now working on a moon colony ship