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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]
2002 Elon Musk launches SpaceX[5], with original base established in El Segundo, California.[6]
2006 March 24 Falcon 1 demo flight 1 is launched from Omelek Island.[7]
2007 March 20 Falcon 1 demo flight 2 is launched from Omelek Island.[7]
2008 August 2 Falcon 1 is launched from Omelek Island as mission for the United States Government, ATSB and NASA.[7]
2008 September 28 Spacex achieves the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 Flight 4).[8][5]
2008 December NASA awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.[9][10]
2009 July Falcon 1 Flight 5 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to deliver a commercial satellite to Earth orbit.[10][5]
2010 June Falcon 9 meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.[10][5]
2010 December 8 SpaceX Dragon becomes the first privately developed spacecraft in history to re-enter from low-Earth orbit.[10]
2010 December 9 Spacex becomes the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Falcon 9 Flight 2).[8][10][5][6]
2011 Spacex announces Grasshopper program to develop reusable rockets.[5]
2012 May Spacex becomes the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Falcon 9 Flight 3).[8][10][5][6][6]
2012 October SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule makes its first resupply mission to the International Space Station, bringing 1,000 lbs of food and cargo to the astronauts on board.[11][6]
2013 March SpaceX completes the first 24-storey test flight of a newly developed rocket, the Grasshopper. Meant to be a prototype for a reusable rocket into space, it safely returns to Earth, landing upright.[6]
2013 October The Grasshopper program finishes with a 744m flight, hover, and landing.[10]
2013 December NASA selects Spacex to lease a historic launch pad for the company's commercial rockets. The agreement would allow the spaceflight company to lease the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
2013 December 3 Spacex becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit (Falcon 9 Flight 7).[8]
2013 December Falcon 9 reaches Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.[10][5]
2014 April Falcon 9 first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.[5]
2014 June Falcon 9 reusable test vehicle flies 1000 meters.[10]
2014 September NASA awards SpaceX a US$2.6 billion contract to fly American astronauts, and announces that SpaceX and Boeing will be the two companies developing spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s crew capsule is called the Dragon V2.[10][6]
2015 January SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous spaceport drone ship.[10] The rocket crashes and burns.[6]
2015 May Crew Dragon tests launch abort system, an emergency escape measure designed to pull the crew capsule free of its Falcon 9 rocket in the event of a launch failure.[10][18]
2015 June A Falcon9 rocket explodes during takeoff.[6]
2015 December 22 Spacex achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land (Falcon 9 Flight 20).[8][10][5][6][19]
2016 January 17 SpaceX launches the Jason-3 satellite for NASA, which plans to measure the height of the ocean surface, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage lands at a good speed, but one of the legs wouldn't latch, causing it to fall over and subsequently explode.[19]
2016 April 8 Spacex achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform (Falcon 9 Flight 23).[8][10][5]
2017 March 30 Spacex achieves the first controlled flyback and recovery of a payload fairing (Falcon 9 Flight 32)[20][10]
2017 June 3 Spacex launches the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft (Falcon 9 Flight 35).[21][10]
2017 June Refurbished SpaceX Dragon ship flies to the International Space Station, becoming the first time the same unmanned spacecraft has returned to the station.[5]
2017 September New rocket booster, the BFR rocket is announced, along with updated plans for Mars colonization.[5]
2017 November SpaceX plans launch of the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V last left for the moon in 1973.[5]

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  1. ↑ "Miles O'Brien – Journalist". 
  2. ↑ McKnight, John Carter (25 September 2001). "Elon Musk, Life to Mars Foundation". Mars Now, a weekly column. Space Frontier Foundation. 
  3. ↑ Musk, Elon. "Risky Business". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 4 December 2017. 
  4. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 "Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings". newatlas.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 "History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced". globalnews.ca. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "COMPLETED MISSIONS". spacex.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX". yaabot.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017. 
  9. ↑ "NASA Awards Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Contracts". nasa.gov. Retrieved 6 December 2017. 
  10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 "MAKING HISTORY". spacex.com. Retrieved 6 December 2017. 
  11. ↑ "How SpaceX's First Space Station Cargo Mission Will Work". space.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 
  12. ↑ "SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad". space.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017. 
  13. ↑ HANLEY FRANK, BLAIR. "NASA chooses SpaceX for launchpad lease, passing over Bezos-backed Blue Origin". geekwire.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017. 
  14. ↑ "SpaceX beats off Bezos' rocket for rights to historic NASA launch pad". theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2017. 
  15. ↑ Leone, Dan. "NASA Negotiating Pad Lease with SpaceX after GAO Rejects Blue Origin Protest". http://spacenews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.  External link in |website= (help)
  16. ↑ "Amazon founder Bezos' space company loses challenge over NASA launch pad". reuters.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017. 
  17. ↑ "SpaceX wins NASA's nod to take over historic Launch Pad 39A SHARE Share Tweet Email Print". nbcnews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017. 
  18. ↑ "SpaceX Tests 'Revolutionary' Dragon Launch Escape System to Save Astronauts". space.com. Retrieved 6 December 2017. 
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 ZIV, STAV. "TIMELINE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPACEX'S REUSABLE ROCKET LAUNCHES". newsweek.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 
  20. ↑ "SpaceX, In Another First, Recovers $6 Million Nose Cone From Reused Falcon 9". Fortune.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017. 
  21. ↑ spacexcmsadmin (4 December 2017). "ZUMA MISSION". 
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