7.He wants to be the first to create a Human colony
The Earth is too small for Elon musk’s great ambitions, he would like to become the first to create a human colony on the planet Mars. He thus hopes to “make humans a multi-planetary species”, In 2008, six years after the founding of SpaceX, he obtained a first contract with the US aerospace agency (NASA) for $ 1.6 billion.
In 2012, SpaceX’s Dragon space cargo ship was the first from a private company to supply the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, SpaceX has been working with the largest Earth space agency. In early 2020, its new Crew Dragon capsule will have the mission to send two astronauts to the ISS and then bring them back safely to Earth.
In addition, Elon Musk’s space company is part of a group of specialized engineering companies that NASA has leased (including Lockheed and Blue Origin, the company of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos). Their task is to develop the Rockets and devices that will send astronauts to the moon in 2024, as part of the Artemis mission, and then to Mars.
