Excellent question! I'll give just one example, which I happened to observe. On December 21, 2015, SpaceX successfully launched a two stage rocket, the Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. read more
SpaceX scored its first big headline in 2010, when it became the first private company to launch a payload into orbit and return it to Earth intact—something only government agencies like NASA or Russia’s Roscosmos had done before. read more