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I was thinking about how much is going on at SpaceX. I wrote this to get my head round it. These are all the things I can think of that are in progress or on the horizon. I have not included anything speculative or old. I've tried to not get too fine grained and included lots of little things; just the things I think are noteworthy events. It's amazing how many things there are going on in parallel atm.
Everything spacex is doing.
Landing a Falcon9 first stage on a barge
Landing a Falcon9 first stage back at launch site
Reflying a Falcon9 first stage
Falcon9 Luna mission - Xprize (2016)
Building another more stable landing barge
Falcon Heavy maiden launch
Falcon Heavy maximum payload mass mission with crossfeed
Landing all 3 Falcon Heavy cores on one flight
First Falcon Heavy payload to Mars
Developing launch facilities at Boca Chica
Developing launch facilities at Spaceport America
Developing launch facilities at KSC 39A
Developing rocket engine test facilities at Stennis
Opening satelite RandD officies in Washington
Developing a several hundred LEO satellite ISP
Applying for Air Force approval to launch military payloads
Dragon2 Launch abort test from pad
Dragon2 Launch abort test from Falcon9 during maxQ
Dragon2 first flight to orbit
Dragon2 first propulsive landing test
Dragon2 first maned flight and WITH propulsive landing
Development of Raptor engine
Test firing of Raptor engine
My favourite.. Reused Falcon first stage flight, returning to launch site, with fully crewed Dragon 2 and return to propulsive landing.
And..Oh yeah.. and then the Mars Colonial Transporter architecture announcement.
Is there anything I missed?
EDIT: (Stuff I missed) Vendenberg Falcon Heacy launch facilites Production of spacesuits Super chilled LOX and Kerosene densification