Found­ed in 2002 to rev­o­lu­tion­ize space tech­nol­o­gy, SpaceX designs, man­u­fac­tures, and launch­es advanced rock­ets and space­craft with the ulti­mate goal of enabling peo­ple to live on oth­er plan­ets. SpaceX has gained world­wide atten­tion for a series of his­toric mile­stones, includ­ing being the only pri­vate com­pa­ny to return a space­craft from low-Earth orbit. SpaceX con­tin­ues to work toward one of its key goals of devel­op­ing reusable rock­ets – a feat that will trans­form space explo­ration by deliv­er­ing high­ly reli­able vehi­cles at rad­i­cal­ly reduced costs.