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SpaceX is an American aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft: Founding Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 to make spaceflight more affordable and revolutionize the aerospace industry. Headquarters SpaceX's headquarters are in Hawthorne, California, where the company builds most of its vehicles. Achievements SpaceX has made many historic achievements, including: Being the first private company to launch and return a spacecraft from Earth orbit Being the first private company to launch a crewed spacecraft and dock it with the International Space Station (ISS) Becoming the world's dominant space launch provider in the late 2010s