SpaceX was founded in 2002 with one goal: make life multiplanetary. Every rocket in this timeline was a step toward that — Falcon 1 proved a private company could reach orbit at all, Falcon 9 proved a booster could fly again, and Falcon Heavy proved that reusability could scale to serious payloads.

Starship is where those lessons converge. It's SpaceX's fully reusable transportation system, built to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage are designed to land, refuel, and fly again — the same philosophy as the 2015 booster landing, just scaled up to a 121-meter stack.

Flight testing began in 2023 at Starbase, Texas, and every test since has pushed the vehicle closer to routine, airline-style reusability.