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From the single-engine Falcon 1 to its massive Mars rocket, Starship, SpaceX has come a long way since it was founded back in 2002.
It's been a rough, explosive ride at times. Here are the rockets that made SpaceX the company it is today, as well as the launch vehicles that could one day fulfill Musk's ambitions of making humanity a multi-planetary species.Its first rocket, Falcon 1, was named after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. SpaceX built the rocket to carry 670 kilogram loads into low Earth orbit.
Early on in the development of Falcon 9, SpaceX decided it wanted to start implementing reusability into its design. This led to the development of Grasshopper, a 100-foot-tall rocket prototype flown at SpaceX's McGregor, Texas, proving grounds. Grasshopper flew eight times between 2012 and 2013.Grasshopper wasn't the only test rocket for SpaceX's reusable technologies. While Grasshopper flew to an altitude of 2,440 feet on its last flight, the F9R rocket went to new heights.
SpaceX first launched a Cargo Dragon to the ISS for a demonstration mission on May 12, 2012. The early development of Dragon was crucial in SpaceX's ability to eventually launch astronauts to the ISS. It goes down as the earliest test rocket for SpaceX's planned massive Mars launch vehicle. As such, Starship embodies Musk's ultimate goal, which is to build a fully reusable rocket capable of ferrying humans between Earth and Mars.
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