After 148 launches lighting up the sky and 110 landmark booster landings, SpaceX celebrated a new, terrestrial milestone Monday — its 20th birthday.
To mark the occasion, SpaceX posted a video on Twitter highlighting its 20 years of success.
The space-faring company, started by entrepreneur and CEO Elon Musk in 2002 has its Earthly roots in El Segundo, California, where Musk named its first rocket “Falcon 1,” a reference to Star Wars’ most famous light freighter the “Millennium Falcon.” It was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit in 2008.
