...according to Elon Musk: a place of green energy, rapid transport and holidays on Mars
Think big. You hear that quite a lot. Thing is, very few have the brains and balls to reimagine the world as we know it. To grab physics by the throat and squeeze until it gives up its secrets. Musk has that ability, and the potential to change everything because he’s not just a talker, he’s a doer.
SpaceX
Formed by Musk in 2002, SpaceX has one main mission statement – to send a manned expedition to Mars by the 2030s and, later, to create a colony on the red planet. Before then it intends to send two members of the public around the Moon in its Dragon 2 spacecraft in 2018.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Top Gear South Africa.
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