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Three of his rockets exploded before Falcon 1 finally worked in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

SpaceX’s initial public offering on Friday could help if the rockets, satellites, and artificial-intelligence company gets off to a good start.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The biggest focus of its business is the manufacture and launch of rockets with reusable parts.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

At the same time, SpaceX in 2015 successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, ushering in the age of partially reusable rockets.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau