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<blockquote data-quote="Gene2memE" data-source="post: 77176593" data-attributes="member: 341130"><p>No, he wasn't, and no he doesn't.</p><p></p><p>SpaceX was the first company to land a commercially viable re-usable launch vehicle after an orbital journey. </p><p></p><p>However, the Space Shuttle was a re-usable "space ship" decades before the Falcon 9 and there were multiple other small and large scale reusable rockets - including the space capable New Shepard which beat Falcon 9 by about 8 days to a vertical landing- that completed vertical landings before the Falcon 9. Some date as far back as the 1960s.</p><p></p><p>Also, Musk didn't do any of that personally. He was just the founder of the company that did it. It's a bit like arguing that Enzo Ferrari won Le Mans.</p><p></p><p>Also, SpaceX doesn't build "all the rockets for NASA".</p><p></p><p>Since 2020, NASA has used launch vehicles from United Launch Alliance (Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V), RocketLab (Electron), Orbital Sciences Corporation (Taurus/Minotaur-C), Orbital ATK/Northrop Grumman (Minotaur IV and Antares) and Virgin Orbit (LauncherOne). Plus, NASA tested their own Space Launch System in late 2022.</p><p></p><p>Falcon 9/Falcon 9X account for about 40-50% of all NASA's commerical launch vehicles in any given year, and probably 50-70% of payloads by mass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gene2memE, post: 77176593, member: 341130"] No, he wasn't, and no he doesn't. SpaceX was the first company to land a commercially viable re-usable launch vehicle after an orbital journey. However, the Space Shuttle was a re-usable "space ship" decades before the Falcon 9 and there were multiple other small and large scale reusable rockets - including the space capable New Shepard which beat Falcon 9 by about 8 days to a vertical landing- that completed vertical landings before the Falcon 9. Some date as far back as the 1960s. Also, Musk didn't do any of that personally. He was just the founder of the company that did it. It's a bit like arguing that Enzo Ferrari won Le Mans. Also, SpaceX doesn't build "all the rockets for NASA". Since 2020, NASA has used launch vehicles from United Launch Alliance (Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V), RocketLab (Electron), Orbital Sciences Corporation (Taurus/Minotaur-C), Orbital ATK/Northrop Grumman (Minotaur IV and Antares) and Virgin Orbit (LauncherOne). Plus, NASA tested their own Space Launch System in late 2022. Falcon 9/Falcon 9X account for about 40-50% of all NASA's commerical launch vehicles in any given year, and probably 50-70% of payloads by mass. [/QUOTE]
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