You are walking up to a massive rocket about to board. Then you’re in, ready for the launch. Your heart is pounding. You’re starting to sweat. You are getting prepared to go to space. Then you hear the countdown and you know there’s no turning back now. The countdown hits 0 and you launch up through the atmosphere. You and the other people on board are zooming towards your soon to be home, Mars. SpaceX is making progress toward making something like this possible while helping with space travel today. SpaceX is making the future for space life because of what is has to offer, the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets along with their spacecraft, the Dragon.
SpaceX was founded by a successful businessman who imagines advancing space technology. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Before he started, he had no training in rocketry. Elon Musk owns the car brand Tesla. Elon Musk started SpaceX because he wants to revolutionize space technology. It was a good time to start because around the time he founded it, NASA was going to stop making rockets. SpaceX has the ultimate goal of making it possible to live on Mars. …show more content…
The Falcon 9 rocket is 229.6 ft. tall and weighs 1,207,920 lbs. The rocket is made of 2 stages where the first stage has 9 big Merlin rocket engines to get it up into the atmosphere. Those 9 Merlin engines generate 1,710,000 lbs. of thrust. The 2nd stage has 1 Merlin vacuum engine which is a bit more powerful than the regular Merlin engines. The one Merlin vacuum engine in the 2nd stage generates 220,000 lbs. of thrust to get it through space. After several attempts for landing the stage 1 rocket so it could be reused, they were finally successful, because of the high costs of building the rockets they made it so you can pay 62 million dollars to have it
SpaceX was founded by a successful businessman who imagines advancing space technology. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Before he started, he had no training in rocketry. Elon Musk owns the car brand Tesla. Elon Musk started SpaceX because he wants to revolutionize space technology. It was a good time to start because around the time he founded it, NASA was going to stop making rockets. SpaceX has the ultimate goal of making it possible to live on Mars. …show more content…
The Falcon 9 rocket is 229.6 ft. tall and weighs 1,207,920 lbs. The rocket is made of 2 stages where the first stage has 9 big Merlin rocket engines to get it up into the atmosphere. Those 9 Merlin engines generate 1,710,000 lbs. of thrust. The 2nd stage has 1 Merlin vacuum engine which is a bit more powerful than the regular Merlin engines. The one Merlin vacuum engine in the 2nd stage generates 220,000 lbs. of thrust to get it through space. After several attempts for landing the stage 1 rocket so it could be reused, they were finally successful, because of the high costs of building the rockets they made it so you can pay 62 million dollars to have it