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SpaceX : Future of Space

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) a American space transport services company founded  in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is a envisionary and he founded the comapny with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of mars.

It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, both of which were designed from conception to eventually become reusable, and the Dragon spacecraft which is flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to supply the International Space Station with cargo. A manned version of Dragon is in development.

Musk vision was to build a simple and relatively inexpensive reusable rocket that would go into space multiple times, similar to the turn around time capabilities that commercial airliners currently exhibit.

On 18 August 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) with a possible option for crew transport.

SpaceX is currently manufacturing two main space launch vehicles: the large Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class Falcon 9,and the super-heavy class Falcon Heavy, which is scheduled to make its first flight in 2015.

Several modifications or additions to the Falcon rocket family are currently being developed by SpaceX. These include three vehicles that further technology development objectives toward reusable launch systems: the Grasshopper test vehicle and the commercial launch vehicles Reusable Falcon 9 and Reusable Falcon Heavy.

The Dragon spacecraft is intended to carry up to seven astronauts into orbit and beyond.[126] It is a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule, which is capable of carrying 7 people or a mixture of personnel and cargo to and from low Earth orbit.[126] It is launched atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

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