To infinity, and Elon'd!... Cancel your Netflix plans — we’re tuning into NASA Live. Today at 4:33 PM ET, SpaceX plans to launch its first ever human passengers into space on the Crew Dragon (sounds like an EDM DJ — actually a reusable spacecraft). The Elon Musk-founded and CEO'd space company (valued at around $36B) is making history:
Soyuz saying you don't need us?... Since 2011, NASA astronauts have bummed rides to the space station on Russia’s Soyuz capsule, paying a neat $80M/passenger (no SpaceMiles program yet). So NASA awarded billions to SpaceX and Boeing to develop a non-Russian-government option. SpaceX finished first.
One small step for man, one giant leap for capitalism?... If the intrepid launch goes well, Elon's dream of colonizing Mars (or, at least, commercializing space travel) may not be so far-flung.