April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... might recall the stomach-churning scene from the episode Elon Musk hosted in May 2021, when Pete Davidson’s monosyllabic ...read fifteen times; “Mars is a Hellhole.” Responding to Elon Musk’s lust for immortality on the Red Planet, which is largely...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... enough of them to bankroll an entire industry to the point where they carry us, as a species, sustainably off-Earth? Although Elon Musk estimates that he can eventually bring the price of a seat to LEO down below $1m (an enormous drop from the...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... challenges of managing the environment and of managing ourselves are great, but we are equal to those challenges. For Elon Musk’s plan for a self-sustaining Mars colony to become a reality, the space passenger transport industry needs to mature...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
...the company founded and run by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Viewed from the Press Centre near the giant .... But this was just a first step because the ultimate ambition of Elon Musk is to take people back to the Moon and on to Mars. ...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... will be a fact. How do you react to entrepreneurs like Elon Musk of SpaceX and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin? It is clear ...brought a revolution for space activities but with different approaches. Elon Musk is probably much more, let us say, ‘business’ ...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
... posted pictures of a Falcon Heavy launch and a Dragon spacecraft resting on the Martian surface in their Twitter feed. Elon Musk is known for his long-term vision of establishing a permanent human presence on Mars. In October 2011, a report prepared...
