First commercial launch by SpaceX

For many decades, the space race was seen as a national pride.  All the space missions till now were done by Government agencies like NASA, ESA or ISRO.     For example in China and India all the space missions are treated as national pride.

 Now the space race has entered into private field too.  The private spaceflight company, SpaceX launched a commercial satellite from Florida on tuesday, 3rd December, 2013 after two delays due to technical  problems. For more details please read SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite.