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In the entire history of spaceflight, only four entities have ever launched a true space capsule into orbit and successfully returned it to Earth: • The United States • Russia • China • Elon Musk For decades, this was a capability reserved only for the world's most powerful nations Then SpaceX changed everything. With the Dragon spacecraft, a private company joined an elite group once limited to superpowers But SpaceX didn't just join the club - they took it over. SpaceX has now flown ~50 missions to the ISS, including both crew and cargo To put that in perspective: the entire U.S. Space Shuttle program visited the ISS 37 times during its 30-year run. SpaceX has already surpassed that - in roughly a decade Dragon is also the only ISS resupply vehicle that can return cargo back to Earth - a capability no other active cargo ship has In just the last 5 years, SpaceX has launched more crew and return-capable cargo to the space station than every other country and space program on Earth combined SpaceX is the backbone of American human spaceflight and increasingly, the world's