SpaceX
Raymond Gonzalez is an experienced professional in materials and composite engineering, currently serving as Team Lead Materials Engineering Technician at SpaceX since June 2011. In this role, Raymond oversees a reliability lab, testing materials under diverse conditions. Previously, as a Composite Structures Technician, responsibilities included project leadership, pre-production planning, and expertise in high-temperature composite technology. Prior to SpaceX, Raymond worked at BAE Systems Information Technology from March 2006 to June 2011 as a Composite Bonding and Finishes Technician, focusing on assembly, testing, and research of composite materials. Earlier experience includes a position as Detail Painter at Platinum Painting from December 1997 to August 2005. Raymond holds an Associate's degree in Business Administration and Management from Rio Hondo College, obtained between 1988 and 1990.
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SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which historically has flown only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9 but can fly multiple times per day and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again. SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads.