A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. April 23, 2021.
In 2002, a 31-year -old South African immigrant to the US founded a company that is likely to transform the course of human development. SpaceX would, within two decades, become the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station , achieve the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing of an orbital rocket , be the first to reuse an orbital rocket and become the first private company to send astronauts to the ISS .
SpaceX also launched, by January 2020, the largest satellite constellation – Starlink – to provide commercial internet services. Although Elon Musk is an enigma, there are many who have caught on to his vision and who now see space as the next frontier. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic are already flying paying customers to space. And evenGet 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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