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Elon Musk, the founder of the first commercial space flight company, SpaceX, has announced, on November 16, that SpaceX will spend $500,000 (per trip) on sending a grand total of 80,000 men to the martian soil. Obviously, all of those men won't be sent to Mars at one time. The project includes sending men overtime, and with each trip to Mars, will include the ability to have man sustain itself. Musk has said that the entire project will cost $16 billion, and some of it will have to be offset by government agencies. Elon has also said out of the whole project, the majority of the money will be funding the beginning, which is sending large amounts of supplies so that the astronauts can begin to develop a base on Mars.
Luckily, SpaceX has already tested the, "Grasshopper" rocket on 2 different occasions. Both tests was sending a unmanned, reusable, rocket up into outer space and successfully retrieving back from space. Along with successfully docking the Dragon rockets with the International Space Station, I have no doubt that SpaceX is leading the world in space exploration, and could one day very well overtake government agencies in the involvement of space exploration! To read on about SpaceX and their plan for the future, you can read an article at: http://io9.com/5963349/spacex-founder-unveils-plan-to-send-80000-people-to-mars
This seems pretty interesting. Where can I go and see this? I hope the price for this kind of detour would get lower so normal people like us can go.
ReplyDeleteWell that's the main reason of why SpaceX exists, is to give the public the ability to go to space. That is also why SpaceX is designing reusable space craft, that way the cost of space flight will monumentally decline! Their main goal is to eventually make it a perfectly normal and daily thing of non-military personel, visiting space.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt this is a great feat that they will hopefully follow through with. Is this the same company that adverts shooting people into Earth's orbit as luxury travel? How long will this project take?
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