Since its founding, SpaceX has proven designs that can create a revolutionary access for humans to the space. It has designed and developed its spacecraft and rockets that SpaceX is able to perform rigorous tests while maintaining more controlled quality and costs. Its core value of simplicity and reliability has proved that SpaceX can make things happen.
Through the years, SpaceX has had historic milestones. In December 2010 for instance, SpaceX was the first to successfully return a spacecraft from a low-Earth orbit mission. In May 2012, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was able to exchange cargo payloads in the International Space Station and safely return to Earth – a feat only the government became successful in the past. In October 2012, Dragon spacecraft made another successful delivery of cargo to the space station in what NASA calls as the first official cargo re-supply mission.
Because of these successes, NASA has awarded a contract to SpaceX worth $1.6 billion for 11 more cargo re-supply missions to the International Space Station. Since Dragon was designed to carry crew, SpaceX has another contract with NASA for $440 million to carry astronauts to the space station in the near future. For its part, SpaceX is applying renovations to Dragon to make it truly crew ready.
To date, SpaceX has launched into space fifty times, representing various contracts amounting to $4 billion. These launches included NASA missions and commercial satellite launches. Meanwhile, SpaceX is currently implementing the development of Falcon Heavy, which is known as the most powerful rocket in the world.