As we know on Saturday, May 30th at 3.22 p.m EDT SpaceX has successfully launched the crew dragon’s demo-2 with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on top of Falcon-9 . For American soil, it’s a 9 years gap from the STS shuttle. Also, this is the first privately-owned space vehicle to bring humans to Low Earth Orbit. The biggest question is “How the SpaceX managed to do this?”. If you want to know the answer you have to know the journey of SpaceX from the beginning. In 2002, SpaceX was formed by Elon Musk and Tom Mueller (Present CTO of SpaceX) with the vision of colonizing humans in the Red Planet. In the early 2000s, SpaceX was a joke for the space exploration community. Everyone knows that transporting humans to Mars is a big deal. Still, the biggest achievement in mars is NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. Elon Musk was very clear about this at the time when SpaceX was founded. Also, his fortune was not enough to go for launch at that time. But they were ready to face the challen...
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