Digital Up Magazine Despite the odds, humanity has reaached the end of year 2015 with yet another milestone – The first ever space rocket return landing. December 20, 2015 SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 Dragon rocket AND it successfully landed back on the launch target, making space history. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company. It was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk with the goal of creating the technologies to reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonization of Mars. [ 20 ] DigitalUP