SpaceX announces ambitious plans for Mars
APR 28, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029777
New York Times : Elon Musk, CEO of US aerospace company SpaceX, has announced a plan to land an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft on Mars in about two years. He has previously stated ambitions of sending people to the Red Planet by the mid 2020s. Key to all SpaceX Mars flights is the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which has yet to launch. SpaceX is teaming up with NASA to share its innovative rocket-engine landing technology for a future Mars mission, according to NASA’s deputy administrator Dava Newman. Even with technological support from NASA, however, SpaceX’s goal of getting to Mars in just two years may prove overly ambitious.
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