{"id":312262,"date":"2017-09-29T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=312262"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:36:51","slug":"musk-revises-his-mars-ambitions-and-they-seem-a-little-bit-more-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=312262","title":{"rendered":"Musk revises his Mars ambitions, and they seem a little bit more real"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the International Astronautical Congress on September 29, 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. (credit: Mark Brake\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Yes, Elon Musk still absolutely wants to go to Mars. But in a speech delivered Friday in Adelaide, Australia, the founder of SpaceX opened the door to sending humans to the Moon first. “It\u2019s 2017, we should have a lunar base by now,” he said, speaking just a couple of years shy of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landings. “What the hell is going on?”<\/span><\/p>\n

This was just a single line in his talk, which was filled with\u00a0exhilarating moments but also\u2014critically\u2014some welcome doses of reality. A year ago, when Musk\u00a0unveiled his Mars rocket at the same annual meeting of the International Astronautical Congress, the presentation felt much more<\/a> like science fiction than something which might become a reality. It lacked any real semblance of a plan to pay for the rocket.<\/p>\n

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A thoroughly sci-fi looking rendering of Moon Base Alpha.<\/a> (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This year, Musk’s talk still sparkled with almost unimaginable technology. But it was leavened with enough tidbits of plausibility to think he just might-maybe-sorta pull this off one day. After all, it was only nine years ago that the company made its first successful launch, a tiny Falcon 1 rocket that\u00a0took flight\u00a0after three consecutive failures. Now, SpaceX is proving out the technology<\/a> that underlies reusable rockets, and it stands at the precipice of capturing at least a third of the global launch market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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