(cont'd from yesterday's post)
A genuine plan to take people to Mars has captivated - even electrified - some people. That's because no serious, credible problem-solver has ever taken on this mission and promised a completion date so soon. Elon Musk is unique.
Those two volunteers who paid mega-bucks to hold their place on the first crewed mission to Mars (yesterday's post) are betting their lives that it will really happen.
Here's a comment posted when SpaceX made the announcement on its fb page:
"Make this happen while it still can. I don't want our descendants to see us as the only civilization that could have colonized Mars, but in the end didn't bother, but instead sat around watching streaming video on their phones."
Peter Diamandis, head of X Prize Foundation, says SpaceX "has a mission and transformative purpose to make the human race a multiplanetary species . . That vision is intoxicating and powerful.”
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