How Does Elon Musk Launch Humans

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Elon Musk brought down the curtains on his company's flagship spacecraft i.e. Interplanetary Transport System in Mexico during a conference, reports Space.com. The CEO said that ITS will combine the most powerful rocket and it will be able to carry at least 100 people in every flight to the Red Planet. Disclosing his vision, he said that if everything happens according to the plan, it

Slide 2: What is the SpaceX Program? The SpaceX program is a space program that designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The Program was founded in 2002 to rigorize space technology, with a goal of allowing people to live on other planets.

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

The competition between SpaceX and Boeing started a week after Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX, unveiled his ambitious plan to colonize mars. After that statement, Dennis Muilenburg the CEO of Boeing announced that they also have sights on sending people to Mars. He stated during a conference in Chicago “I am convinced that the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding on a Boeing rocket”(Thorbecke).

1. With his newfound wealth Musk went on to found SpaceX, a company with the intent of establishing commercial space travel.

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