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The establishment of Space Exploration Technologies—SpaceX—brought new and lower cost launch vehicles and services to the commercial market. SpaceX has developed the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket and Dragon cargo and crew capsules.
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Young, A. (2015). Game Changer: SpaceX. In: The Twenty-First Century Commercial Space Imperative. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18929-1_2
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