Elon Musk
Elon Musk's birthplace
Pretoria, South Africa
A key difference between SpaceX and competitors
It is on average cheaper
What are Falcon rockets
The name of SpaceX's spacecraft
Elon Musk's car company
Tesla
SpaceX is a private company
SpaceX's type of engine
Liquid fuel engine
PayPal
One of SpaceX's most important accomplishments
It is the first private company to successfully launch and retrieve a spacecraft from Earth's orbit with falcon 1 rocket
2006
First launch
South African and Canadian
To make affordable space flight a reality
First commercial manufacturer to...
...use liquid fuel engines
He didn't want to support apartheid through military service, and he wanted to seek economic opportunities in the U.S.
The year SpaceX in which SpaceX was founded
2002
SpaceX's recent innovation involving rocket stage reclamation
Self-landing first stage