As shipments go, it was routine — about half a ton of supplies — except it was delivered by the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX partnered with NASA in this new model, the brainchild of Elon Musk, who’s behind Tesla electric cars as well. He left South Africa at 17, earned two U.S. undergraduate degrees and then made serial piles of dough pioneering online payment systems, including the one that became PayPal. Musk’s persona inspired aspects of Tony Stark in the"Iron Man," but Musk’s aspirations seem more like Buzz Lightyear’s — to infinity, and beyond.
When the rover "Curiosity" lands on Mars on Sunday, will you be thinking, "That’s what SpaceX will be doing one day"?
That’s always been a goal of SpaceX. We’re hoping to develop the technology to do that in probably 12 to 15 years.
Would you go to Mars?
I would. The first flight would be risky; if I felt comfortable that the company’s mission will continue, that my kids have grown up, then I’d be on the first mission.
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