Editing SpaceX (section)

=== The Founding of SpaceX ===
In the early 2000s, Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur, recognized that the high cost of space travel was a significant barrier to space exploration. Musk was also driven by his vision of making humanity a multi-planetary species, with Mars as a potential future home. His aim was to create a private company that could reduce the cost of getting to space, eventually opening the door for interplanetary exploration.

Musk founded SpaceX with a $100 million investment, using the profits from his earlier ventures: Zip2 (a city guide software) and PayPal (which was sold to eBay in 2002). The company’s headquarters were established in Hawthorne, California, and the initial goal was to develop a reliable and reusable spacecraft to compete with established space agencies, particularly NASA and Roscosmos.
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