An American private aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, the first private company to develop a reusable orbital rocket and to launch, dock and return a crewed spacecraft, and a major contractor for NASA cargo and crew flights to the International Space Station.
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Agency TypePrivate aerospace company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersHawthorne, California, United States 1 Annual Budget$18.67 billion in reported revenue for 2025 (SpaceX is privately held; figure from its SEC IPO filing, not a government budget) 3 SpaceX
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SpaceX generated $18.67B in revenue in 2025, according to paperwork filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of the company's IPO, expected next month.
Wikipedia: SpaceX (company)
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services, headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas.
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In 2002, Musk founded and became CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, a space technology company
SpaceX Dragon 2 (Wikipedia)
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Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions.
Wikipedia: Starship HLS
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It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew of astronauts on the Moon.
Wikipedia: SpaceX Starfall
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Starfall is space capsule class designed to return payloads to Earth from orbit/near orbit, developed by SpaceX.
Wikipedia - SpaceX Dragon
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Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American public space transportation company SpaceX.
SpaceX Starship (Wikipedia)
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Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.
Hayley Arceneaux - Wikipedia
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She joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX's first private spaceflight Inspiration4, which launched on September 16, 2021, 00:02:56 UTC, and successfully water-landed local-time on Saturday, September 18.
Sian Proctor - Wikipedia
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As pilot of the Inspiration4's SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule, Proctor became the first African-American woman to pilot a spacecraft.
Wikipedia: Rabea Rogge
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Rabea Patricia Rogge is an electrical engineer, robotic researcher, polar scientist and private astronaut who flew on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience, as part of the Fram2 mission.
Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia
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Isaacman commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight, using SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 16, 2021.
Sophie Adenot (Wikipedia)
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Her first spaceflight began in February 2026 on SpaceX Crew-12, during which she launched to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission as a part of Expedition 74/75, where she became the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk.
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