Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.
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Old space station equipment and other items will be removed by SpaceX in McGregor.
SpaceX is also trying to open a commercial rocket launching facility in Texas, he said.
He hired engineers from the big aerospace companies, but SpaceX remains small, with just 250 employees.
From a small island in the Pacific, SpaceX managed to send a rocket into space.
SpaceX has only mounted seven launches since its inception, three of which were catastrophic failures.
Now nine years later, SpaceX has proven our Falcon launch vehicles and Dragon spacecraft.
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The station's crew, as well as engineers at SpaceX's mission-control center at its Hawthorne, Calif.
Before Tuesday's picture-perfect launch, Elon Musk, Spacex's founder and chief executive, tried to damp expectations.
The problem appeared to be "an issue with a propellant valve, " SpaceX spokeswoman Christina Ra said.
He hired former Broadcom finance executive Bret Johnsen as SpaceX Chief Financial Officer in May 2011.
His company, Space Exploration Technologies (or "SpaceX"), is developing a rocket called Falcon 1.
Boeing has thus far declined offers of assistance from Tesla and SpaceX, says Musk.
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For Elon Musk, the CEO and chief designer at SpaceX, Tuesday's lift-off was a special moment.
Because both Tesla and SpaceX rely on lithium ion battery packs in their vehicles.
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By that time, SpaceX was hemorrhaging money and its distraught founder felt increasingly hemmed in.
SpaceX also is looking at sites in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and other states, Bjelde said.
In addition to their work with NASA, SpaceX is also focusing on work with commercial partners.
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Compared with SpaceX's looming challenges, fixing what caused the scrubbed launch turned out to be relatively simple.
At a press conference Friday, SpaceX predicted somewhat better than a 50-50 chance of launching on Saturday.
If all is go, then SpaceX will be given a green light for an April 30 launch.
SpaceX became the first private company to deliver supplies to the station on NASA's behalf in October.
In terms of new innovations, Musk said SpaceX is testing of new rockets that would be reusable.
Furthermore, SpaceX openly competed and won the overwhelming majority of its NASA contracts in 2006 and 2008.
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At 9:03 am ET this morning, the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station.
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In 2010, SpaceX became the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
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It's vital for SpaceX's future "to be in a steady cadence of launches, " he told reporters Friday.
On November 16, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a talk before the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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