SpaceX is another brainchild of Elon Musk. Musk has had ambitions of space travel, hoping to be the first permanent resident of mars. In February 2018, Elon Musk launched Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket ever launched into space.
However, none of SpaceX’s current fleet of rockets currently have capabilities to launch humans into space. Their solution is the development of the Crew Dragon, designed to send humans to orbit. NASA will likely use this to launch humans to the International Space Station or ISS, as well as using their rockets to launch satellites for NASA and other organizations and companies. SpaceX and Boeing are crucial to NASA and its goal to become reliant only on American spacecraft, rather than the Russians. Musk wants
Citing cases such as SpaceX, which built a rocket named the dragon 320x cheaper than NASA’s spaceship the Orion, many opponents to governmental space exploration heavily recommend NASA to privatize many of its sectors. However, contrary to popular belief, NASA is not an entirely government run corporation and in essence has already inherently privatized almost all of its sectors which should be privatized to cut down costs. For instance, NASA Administrator Chris Scolese told a congressional subcommittee back in 2009 that the agency will give $150 million in stimulus-package money to private companies that design, build and service their own rockets. Furthermore, NASA has picked three private companies to act as its International Space Station “delivery service” through the next eight years. The contractors of SpaceX, Orbital ATK, and Sierra Nevada Corporation will transport supplies up to the International Space Station and back to NASA starting in late 2019. Most importantly, President Obama announced in his Space Plan that his goal was to restructure NASA to focus on space research and development while reassigning the other tasks of NASA to private corporations. Thus, the claim that NASA needs to privatize falls hollow because NASA is already privatizing the sectors which should be privatized. The majority of sectors that NASA funds in the status quo lies in
Free enterprise helped Musk build his empire and fulfill his dreams. He had to prove to people why they needed his product and why they would want it. His goal is to make people stop using fossil fuels and find an alternative power source. He created the Tesla. At first people didnt think that Tesla was going to be as successful as it has become.
Tesla Motors is an American car company named in honor of the groundbreaking electrical engineer and physicist, Nikola Tesla. The company was founded by Elon Musk, a 42 year-old Stanford drop-out and South African born billionaire, entrepreneur, and innovator in electrical engineering, space exploration, and solar power (Ener D1). Having made his first claim to fame via internet money exchange giant, PayPal, Musk would make another tidal wave via the auto industry with the high-performance class of Tesla all-electric sports cars, four doors, and SUVs. (Griffiths 42).
The purpose of NASA is to help discover new knowledge about outer space and new essentials that can help the human kind. NASA can also help people with things from everyday life to things that can help us live in unknown places. They plan to take the out space flights to a whole new level. The research done in NASA also helps our nation be one of the highest ranking science nations in the world. “NASA conducts its work in four principal organizations, called mission directorates: [Aeronautics, Human Exploration and Operations, Science, and Space Technology] (About NASA).Because of the economic problems of the United States, NASA has a budget of $17.7 billion to rely on for the next couple of years(Bolden). They also have to maintain the ISS for its
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has been trying to get a manned mission to Mars since 2002; it was the reason that he started his own business to build and improve on rocket technology.
From the origins of rocketry, the only major contenders in space exploration were governmental agencies, while the commercial use of the Universe was limited to communication satellites. However, everything is changing. Modern developments like reusable rockets and nano-satellites drastically lower the cost of accessing space, starting the new Space Race. This Race, unlike the previous one, is accessible for all of us - and I’m going to share it in my Paideia class.
One of the most important steps mankind has ever made is space exploration. On February 20th, 1962, John Glenn became the first person to orbit the earth. This was a major redemption for the U.S, since just a year before Yuri Gagarin from Russia became the first man to go to space. Glenn’s accomplishment threw America ahead in the famous Space Race with the U.S.S.R. Recently, NASA announced that they plan on having a manned mission to Mars by 2035. However, there 's a lot of competition. Quite a few nonprofit and for-profit organizations believe they can get people to Mars sooner and cheaper than NASA. If NASA is the first organization to have a successful manned
Another thing is that colonization is very controversial because right now it would be suicide. It also depends on who you send for that task. While, we have many solutions to the majority of problems they are completely impractical or immoral.the space elevator is a cool concept but it’s impractical. And colonization of Mars is immoral to some people. While they do things that are moral and practical they do things that are just a waste of money and time.NASA loves to take risks on projects that have way too much money in them to fail but they often do. While SpaceX has only had three rockets fail and there were not that big of losses. SpaceX has never lost a person due to a rocket launch failure while, NASA has. Which is worth more than anything. The overall losses of
In his Op-Ed article in response to the Falcon 9 rocket explosion on September 1st, “We Love You SpaceX, and Hope You Reach Mars, but we Need you to Focus”, Eric Berger, the author, lists objectives that SpaceX has set for itself and its contractual partner, NASA. Berger explains that following the static fire anomaly on Thursday 9/1, SpaceX needs to shift its focus from satellite launch contracts and colonizing Mars to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities with NASA. In this article, Berger his suggests that it is all about priority and SpaceX’s responsibility to honor them. SpaceX’s lack of progress in achieving the goals of its primary supporter - NASA, has left much to be desired. Eric Berger succeeds in persuading me though the appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos, the importance of addressing and honoring the covenant that they made with its funding partner. Therefore, I agree with the author as he suggests, SpaceX would help themselves considerably by pushing for the completion of the commercial crew contract.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket, so we can now officially call the CEO the real-life Tony Stark. Only a real world Iron Man could get into this many business ventures and actually succeed.
Since the last Apollo in 1972, NASA had stopped exploration of the moon began other projects that prioritized on advancing our knowledge of space and other planets, like learning about Mars. Because NASA doesn’t need to learn about the moon or waste money to put people on the moon, why should that stop private companies, like SpaceX, to do so? SpaceX’s “moon mission is designed to be independent” (Associated Press 1). They
Musk conceptualized a project called “Mars Oasis,” in 2001, in which he would “land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars that contained seeds and dehydrating gel, after hydrating the gel the seeds would grow on Martian soil” (McKnight, 2001). The project was to regain a dwindling public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA. Musk quickly realized that the expense of getting to Mars was far greater than he expected and that there would need to be a breakthrough in rocket technology. Musk traveled the world meeting with different rocket builders and space engineers in hopes of finding the right rocket builder and the right price to make his project a reality but did not find a suitable candidate. Musk had the idea of creating a company that could build the rockets that he needed at a fraction of the cost. Musk saw opportunity where others saw dead ends. He hired renowned rockets engineers and opened a facility in El Segundo, California, called SpaceX. “Musk decided SpaceX’s first rocket would be named Falcon 1, a nod to Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon” (Vance, 2015). A few of SpaceX’s achievements include: the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit (28 September 2008), the first privately funded company to successfully launch (Falcon 9) orbit and recover a spacecraft (9 December 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft 9Dragon) to the International Space Station (25 May 2012) and the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit. In 2011, Musk stated that he hopes to “send humans to Mars’ surface within 10-20 years and believes that by 2035 at the latest, there will be
Since the mid-twentieth century, people have had a desire to explore different aspects of space. The space race between the United States of America and Russia was the height of space exploration. Now with modern interest in the colonization of Mars, the desire to explore space has, again, increased with 20 licensed launches in America in the 2017 calendar year according to the Federal Aviation Administration (“Commercial Space Data”). Different countries still express interest in exploring space, but commercial space exploration has become popular since the 2000’s. American organizations have to adhere to regulations of the FAA, the government organization that provides licenses and permits to enter into space. Many current pieces of legislation, which have solved multiple previous issues, can still be further developed to improve commercial space exploration in the future as Mars colonization becomes a more tangible goal. Robert Walker, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, declared that many of the current space laws “make it easier for government to function in space” (q.t.d “Space Law”), but not companies that could revolutionize commercial space travel. Current American laws on regulations, protection for companies, and what people can do in space need to be altered in order for commercial space companies to reach Mars.
After living a few months from his money he wanted to go on because he still needed something that would change the world and that was his biggest motivation. He wanted people to believe in his ideas. So he went on with is developing and started the business that became Paypal to make electronic cash transverse go faster. This innovation transformed the financial industry, which we still use today. The company was sold to eBay for 1,5 billion and Musk received 165 million. He could buy anything with
1. With his newfound wealth Musk went on to found SpaceX, a company with the intent of establishing commercial space travel.