How the private space industry will reinvent economics, exploration, and humanity.
The rise of the private space industry may be just what is needed to kickstart our much-delayed destiny in the final frontier. Throughout history, the pursuit of profit has proven to be a fantastic spur for advancement and innovation. Just how this will all play out is anyone’s guess, for now. But the wheels are most definitely in motion.
Last September, Elon Musk, CEO and lead designer for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), took the stage at the annual International Astronautical Congress conference in Guadalajara, Mexico to outline his vision for invading Mars. The plan—a combination of technical specificity and operational vagueness—sets the stage for making us a multi-planetary species by prestocking Mars via a steady parade of unmanned supply missions, which will embark every 26 months when the two planets align in their respective orbits.
These initial one-way trips will take around 80 days with today’s technology, but Musk believes they can eventually be shortened to 30-day voyages. Once Mars is properly supplied with a bounty of necessary Earth stuff, the humans will begin to arrive. If all goes according to plan, SpaceX’s first robotic landers will touch down on Mars in the early 2020s.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of PC Magazine.
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