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=== Private funding === The Falcon 1 rocket was developed with private funding.<ref name=usat20050617> {{cite news |first=Kevin |last=Maney|url=https://www.usatoday.com/educate/college/careers/Entreps/6-17-05.htm |title=Private sector enticing public into final frontier |date=June 17, 2005 |publisher=USAToday.com}}</ref><ref name=wired20070522> {{cite news|last=Hoffman|first=Carl|title=Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit|url=https://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-06/ff_space_musk?currentPage=all|access-date=March 14, 2014|newspaper=Wired Magazine|date=May 22, 2007}}</ref> The only other orbital launch vehicles to be privately funded and developed were the [[Conestoga (rocket)|Conestoga]] in 1982; and [[Pegasus (rocket)|Pegasus]], first launched in 1990, which uses a large aircraft as its launch platform.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/release.asp?prid=603 | publisher=Orbital Sciences |title=Orbital Marks 25th Anniversary of Company's Founding | access-date=April 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517165416/http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/release.asp?prid=603 |archive-date=May 17, 2011}}</ref> The total development cost of Falcon 1 was approximately US$90 million<ref name=nasa20110427>{{cite web |title=Commercial Market Assessment for Crew and Cargo Systems |url=http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Section403(b)CommercialMarketAssessmentReportFinal.pdf |website=nasa.gov |publisher=NASA |access-date=June 10, 2015 |page=40 |date=April 27, 2011 |quote=''SpaceX has publicly indicated that the development cost for Falcon 9 launch vehicle was approximately $300 million. Additionally, approximately $90 million was spent developing the Falcon 1 launch vehicle which did contribute to some extent to the Falcon 9, for a total of $390 million. NASA has verified these costs.'' |archive-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207085554/http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Section403(b)CommercialMarketAssessmentReportFinal.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> to US$100 million.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Berger|first=Eric|title=Liftoff|publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]]|year=2021|isbn=978-0-06-297997-1|pages=215}}</ref> While the development of Falcon 1 was privately funded, the first two Falcon 1 launches were purchased by the [[United States Department of Defense]] under a program that evaluates new US launch vehicles suitable for use by [[DARPA]].<ref name=wired20070522/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.satnews.com/stories2007/4156/ |publisher=Satnews.com |title=Falcon 1 Reaches Space But Loses Control and is Destroyed on Re-Entry |date=March 21, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928204503/http://www.satnews.com/stories2007/4156/ |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref><ref>Graham Warwick and Guy Norris, "Blue Sky Thinking: DARPA at 50," ''Aviation Week & Space Technology,'' Aug 18β25, 2008, p. 18.</ref>
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