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
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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.

Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:16 Founding SpaceX
05:15 Falcon 1 Launches
11:36 First Land Landing
11:59 Droneship Landing
12:10 First Re-Flight
12:25 Falcon Heavy First Flgiht
12:52 Crew Dragon Docks With ISS

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[jamesherring]

one of the best video's i have seen you make!

[starmansteve]

Nice update, but jumped from Falcon 1 to Did not discuss development of Falcon 9 or near bancruptcy etc

[vivekr]

At 11:40, there is an error in date.. It's not 2005, it's 2015, when the orbital class landing was successful.

[AKHalex]

0:00 "You wanna wake up in the morning.."

Uuuh, I'm not so sure about that.

[spacepiratejacen]

Space the final frontier! Thank you guys! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[bearlemley]

Talking about Falcon 1, we are shown a random Atmos 6 picture.

[rayhart]

Is there something missing in this video? You jumped from the uncrewed Crew Dragon mission to colonizing Mars. Seems to me that you skipped a few steps.

[jasonlemming]

Elon Musk created the X-COM project? Was he the first commander?!

[ChadSimplicio]

"If you're not breaking things, then you're not innovating fast enough!"

[stevegredell]

14:03 I think your numbers are off by a couple orders of magnitude. The Space Shuttle could put cargo in orbit for ~$30, 000/kg, SpaceX can do it for ~$5, 000/kg. They hope Starship will be <$100/kg

[sliced]

11:38 yo bro the time line so messed up. The falcon 1 was in its early launch that time in 2005 and suddenly you have a Falcon 9 landing in that year??

[simateix]

I absolutely believe we will colonize Mars, it will be difficult, tough and pain in the ass, but we will do it. We always do, especial when Elon Musk is in the lead. He woll be remembered for many many generations to come

[Goiri]

Yes I hope watching humans in Mars in the future

[gyulagyorffy]

Good timing, just after SN5 did 150m hop.

[davidmacphee]

That is Super QUICK LIKE on that one!... Sorry if sometimes I am critical of you guys when I'm drinking. "Old Guy checking in"
"The Very Nature of the Beast" We are all passionate people here. Thanks to you and your Fantastic team.
Very exciting Channel and everyone should have it.
The vocal image was a bit wrong as people have said. These are becoming very serious topics as young people are beginning the realism that their lives will be very long if they are are just wise enough to survive their own growth. Your words will become their Future. Well, years ago, many ago, their Parents had the Beatles but now it seems the edge of Space is the New excitement. The Moon is watching!

[aaron.d.henderson.]

I see what you did... you totally skipped the failed launches/explosions lol
not hating on SpaceX but when people forget that it wasn't flawless, it kinda makes me think people don't want realism.

[brianhutchinson]

Personally I would like to ask Elon Musk one question now I'm sure he won't give me the correct answer but I still would like to ask him. My question is. What is the real reason for or everyone trying to get to Mars all of the sudden.

[DJekall]

Never will look at another video of this channel.
What about showing success rates, , forget it, no thumbs up for me for this channel

[Adamas]

I had to put a dislike on this video due to the unrelated images and the fact that there are only still images. SpaceX public releases FULL HD VIDEO of everything you've mentioned in this video yet you didn't use any of the footage they've provided.

[davidmacphee]

I really love the ways you build up patiently on your earlier videos so are gradually adding more and more on that.
"Space is TOUGH" Does anyone REALLY WANT To go there? Mars? The Human Race needs Really Daring, well trained Heroes. Our moon is more than enough for now but Elon Musk is getting to be a historic match for Nicola Tesla in the major importance of Earth life and over population of desperate car companies. Developing countries need a lot of cars or something smaller that does not pollute.