> [SpaceX] was founded on the basis of a manned carrier aircraft pushing the rocket and do a suborbital split (they did this for years) Is this actually true?

> [SpaceX] was founded on the basis of a manned carrier aircraft pushing the rocket and do a suborbital split (they did this for years) Is this actually true? The only air-launched SpaceX project I could find was the cancelled Falcon 9 Air [1], which I don't think actually flew, and was years after the Falcon 1. Was there some undocumented air-launched SpaceX project going on between 2002 and 2006? The hyped private project I remember from around that time was SpaceShipOne[2], which won the "X Prize", but that was done by Scaled Composites, not SpaceX. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_launch_vehicles#Falcon_9_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_launch_vehicles#Falcon_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne