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The Evolution Of SpaceX!
Elon Musk, a nerdy boy from South Africa who became a world-famous American engineering entrepreneur whose story is a lesson in how a few simple principles and work ethics that are applied relentlessly can yield astonishing results. Curious to know more about Elon Musk and how he developed his SpaceX company to get us off this planet? Keep Watching! The evolution of SpaceX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? Business Enquiries: lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- credits zip2 ( cc by 4.0) credits: nasa credits: uslaunchreport.com (cc by 4.0) credits: spacex (cc by4.0) According to Musk, Humanity’s long-term survival is at risk if it stays limited to just this one planet. Sooner or later, some disaster that could be natural such as asteroids or supervolcano or even man-made such as nuclear war, will end our residency here. Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, in May 2002 to get us off the planet. He taught himself the necessary skills to design rockets in addition to being chief technology officer and CEO of SpaceX. He started with 11 employees, the most important of them is Gwynne Shotwell, who was put in charge of business development. Soon after being hired, Shotwell established herself as Musk’s right-hand woman at SpaceX. She became a legend in the space-tech world and the SpaceX company may have failed without her. The story began in 2002, when Shotwell had a brief conversation with Musk, and two weeks later, she was working for him as the company’s seventh employee. The company’s first rocket, the single-engine Falcon 1, failed three times before it successfully carried a satellite into space in 2008. In the same year, NASA awarded SpaceX a 1.6 billion dollar contract to transport cargo in 12 flights to the space station. In addition to this contract, SpaceX has inked commercial contracts with more than 4 billion dollar to launch satellites aboard its larger Falcon 9 rocket, for various countries and telecommunications companies. Most of these contracts were awarded to SpaceX thanks to Shotwell PR skills. Consequently, SpaceX has gone from a startup with half a dozen employees to a major government contractor with nearly 5 billion dollar in contracts and more than 3,000 people on its payroll. SpaceX Launches Timeline 1- Falcon 1; in September 2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth's orbit With the successful launch of Falcon I, Musk could look to the future, part of which was to help humanity become a spacefaring civilization. To achieve that goal, he knew he had to establish a blueprint that followed a path of ever-increasing capability and reliability while simultaneously reducing costs - goals he had alluded to in his Senate Testimony in 2004. By following this plan, Musk hoped to ultimately reduce the cost of launching vehicles into orbit and increase the reliability of space access by a factor of 10. It was a bold ambition, but Musk believed that by eliminating the traditional layers of management internally and subcontractors externally, SpaceX could reduce its costs and accelerate decision-making and delivery. He also believed that by keeping most of the manufacturing in-house, SpaceX could reduce its costs, keep tighter control of quality, and ensure a tight feedback loop between the design and manufacturing teams. 2- First Land Landing, on 21 december, 2005, the Falcon 9 rocket delivered 11 communications satellites to orbit, and the first stage returned and landed at landing zone1, the first ever orbital class rocket landing. 3- Droneship Landing, on April 8, 2016, the falcon 9 rocket launched the Dragon spacecraft to the international space station, and the first stage returned and landed on the “Of course I still love you” droneship. 4- First Re-flight, on March 30, 2017, SpaceX achieved the world’s first re-flight of an orbital class rocket. Following delivery of the payload, the Falcon 9 first stage returned to Earth for the second time. 5- Falcon Heavy First Flight, Falcon Heavy is the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two, capable of carrying large payloads to orbit and supporting missions as far as the Moon or Mars. On february 7, 2018, Falcon Heavy made its first launch to orbit, successfully landing 2 of its 3 boosters and launching its payload to space. 6- Crew Dragon Docks with ISS, crew dragon docked with the international space station on March 3, 2019, at 3:02 a.m PST, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory. Colonizing Mars #InsaneCuriosity #SpaceX #ColonizingMars
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