Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars has just got lift off with the announcement today that SpaceX will be sending its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018; the mission is to provide the company with data about landing heavy payloads on Mars with rocket engines, a necessity for human colonisation. Elon Musk has previously warned that humanity must not delay in its quest to colonise Mars and take the opportunity whilst we can to make life multiplanetary, while Professor Stephen Hawking has frequently warned that humankind must colonise other planets to ensure the future of its species. This announcement follows Elon Musk's SpaceX winning a $83m contract from Lockheed Martin to launch a satellite for GPS navigation services, a major win for the company, but a loss for the US Air Force and Boeing who have been supplying space launches for the military.
Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars has just got lift off with the announcement today that SpaceX will be sending its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018; the mission is to provide the company with data about landing heavy payloads on Mars with rocket engines, a necessity for human colonisation. Elon Musk has previously warned that humanity must not delay in its quest to colonise Mars and take the opportunity whilst we can to make life multiplanetary, while Professor Stephen Hawking has frequently warned that humankind must colonise other planets to ensure the future of its species. This announcement follows Elon Musk's SpaceX winning a $83m contract from the US Air Force to launch a satellite for GPS navigation services, a major win for the company, but a loss for Lockheed Martin and Boeing who have been supplying space launches for the military.