Claim: SpaceX is a private establishment.
Evidence: SpaceX 's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit -LRB- Falcon 1 in 2008 -RRB- ; the first privately funded company to successfully launch , orbit , and recover a spacecraft -LRB- Dragon in 2010 -RRB- ; the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station -LRB- Dragon in 2012 -RRB- ; the first propulsive landing for an orbital rocket -LRB- Falcon 9 in 2015 -RRB- ; and the first reuse of an orbital rocket -LRB- Falcon 9 in 2017 -RRB-.