Elon Musk is planning to build a city on the red planet, and live there.
Musk"is a revolutionary change" in the space world, says Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, whose Jonathan's Space Report has tracked launches and failures for decades.
Musk wanted to somehow grow a rose on the red planet, show it to the world and inspire school children, recalls Hubbard. There are many space companies and like all of them, SpaceX is designed for profit. But what's different is that behind that profit motive is a goal, which is simply to"Get Elon to Mars," McDowell says."By having that longer-term vision, that's pushed them to be more ambitious and really changed things."
After Columbia, the agency focused on returning astronauts to the moon, but still had to get cargo and astronauts to the space station, says Sean O'Keefe, who was NASA's administrator at the time. A 2005 pilot project helped private companies develop ships to bring cargo to the station. Since 2010, NASA has spent $6 billion to help private companies get people into orbit, with SpaceX and Boeing the biggest recipients, says Phil McAlister, NASA's commercial spaceflight director.
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