3. Financial Info
● Currently private
● Initial funding from founder Elon Musk ($100
million by March 2006)
● $1 billion in funding from first ten years
● February 2012: roughly valued $1.3 billion
(⅔ of which Elon Musk’s)
4. History of Company
● June 2002: founded by Elon Musk
● Aug 2006: SpaceX wins contract from NASA
● Dec 2010: first company to launch/return
spacecraft from orbit
● May 2012: first company to have spacecraft
to attach to International Space Station
