Elon Musk is the unchallenged champion of space technology and since his Twitter acquisition,
even the people who did not know him previously, can not help being amazed by him. Musk’s
erratic tweets and very public feuds with other billionaires and tech giants might be keeping him
in the news nowadays but for the scientific community, his company SpaceX is the main
attraction. In fact, the recent revelations by the company all set to explore the farthest parts of
the universe have caused quite a bit of a stir. We have sent spacecrafts and rovers to other
planets but so far humans haven’t gone beyond the moon or past the low orbit of earth which is
at an altitude of less than one thousand kilometers above Earth. But now Elon has hinted that
SpaceX might be ready to send the very first humans to Mars and even beyond.
SpaceX or Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is a spacecraft manufacturer, launcher and
satellites communications corporation founded by Elon Musk back in 2002. The company’s
headquarters are located in Hawthorne, California. According to Elon his aim was to reduce the
space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. The company mainly
manufactures the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Starship launch vehicles. It also produces
numerous rocket engines, Cargo Dragon and Crew Dragon spacecraft and the popular starlink
communications satellites. It’s no secret that Elon was very excited by the Mars exploration
missions and wants to put humans on the red planet as soon as possible. In 2001 he joined the
Mars society board of directors by donating a hundred thousand dollars. During the plenary talk
at their convention he announced the Mars Oasis. It was a project that was going to land a
miniature experimental greenhouse and grow plants on Mars. After a visit to Moscow, Russia
with Micheal Griffin, Musk announced that he was going to start a company to build affordable
rockets by applying vertical integration, using cheap commercial off-the-shelf components
where he could and by adopting the modular approach of modern software engineering. This
would cut the launch price significantly in Musk’s opinion. Micheal Griffin, who was later
appointed the NASA administrator, awarded SpaceX a 396 million dollar contract in 2006, years
before the company launched a single rocket
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