SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Here's a brief rundown of the biggest spaceflight miletones to keep an eye out for in 2016, from a NASA probe's arrival at Jupiter to the highly anticipated maiden flight of SpaceX's huge new rocket.

See photos of Dragon, Grasshopper and other SpaceX rockets taken since the company was founded in 2002.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX is building a giant rocket called the Falcon Heavy. See images of the planned Falcon Heavy heavy-lift booster in this Space.com gallery.

A look at the "Red Dragon" mission concept, which would use SpaceX's Dragon capsule and Falcon Heavy rocket to bring Red Planet samples — perhaps gathered by NASA's 2020 Mars rover — to Earth.

The Merlin 1D has achieved flight qualification status, the company announced Wednesday.

Elon Musk wants to help put 80,000 people on the Red Planet.

Mars One plans to raise funds by staging a huge media spectacle.

The Dragon capsule will likely make a real supply run to the space station this September.

SpaceX may one day launch rockets from its own Texas spaceport.

SpaceX is dead serious about going to Mars to help ensure humanity's future.

The life-hunting mission could launch toward Mars in a Dragon capsule in 2018.