Timeline of SpaceX
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| 2001 | Elon Musk conceptualizes "Mars Oasis", a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse containing seeds with dehydrated gel on Mars to grow plants on Martian soil, "so this would be the furthest that life's ever traveled"[1] in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA.[2][3] | ||
| 2001 | October | Elon Musk travells to Moscow with aerospace supplies fixer Jim Cantrell, and Adeo Ressi (Musk's best friend from college), to buy refurbished ICBMs (Dnepr) that could send payloads into space.[4] | |
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- ↑ "Miles O'Brien – Journalist".
- ↑ McKnight, John Carter (25 September 2001). "Elon Musk, Life to Mars Foundation". Mars Now, a weekly column. Space Frontier Foundation.
- ↑ Musk, Elon. "Risky Business". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ↑ Andrew Chaikin. "Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation?". Air & Space Smithsonian. Archived from the original on December 18, 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
Significantly, the Merlin engines—like roughly 80 percent of the components for Falcon and Dragon, including even the flight computers—are made in-house. That’s something SpaceX didn’t originally set out to do, but was driven to by suppliers’ high prices. Mueller recalls asking a vendor for an estimate on a particular engine valve. 'They came back [requesting] like a year and a half in development and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just way out of whack. And we’re like, ‘No, we need it by this summer, for much, much less money.’ They go, ‘Good luck with that,’ and kind of smirked and left.' Mueller’s people made the valve themselves, and by summer they had qualified it for use with cryogenic propellants. 'That vendor, they iced us for a couple of months,' Mueller says, 'and then they called us back: ‘Hey, we’re willing to do that valve. You guys want to talk about it?’ And we’re like, ‘No, we’re done.’ He goes, ‘What do you mean you’re done?’ ‘We qualified it. We’re done.’ And there was just silence at the end of the line. They were in shock.' That scenario has been repeated to the point where, Mueller says, 'we passionately avoid space vendors.
