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Elon Musk's SpaceX dreams

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 02:37

May 17 - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to make history when his SpaceX Dragon Capsule attempts to become the first privately-built spaceship to dock with the International Space Station.

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I believe that this nation should commit itself. To achieve that goal. Before this decade -- out. I'm -- the no ma'am the moon and returning him safely to the earth. It's it's been 43 years. Since 1969 and what have we done. That's what you call that program. In 96 tonight with the gland on -- of them. And and then with the space shuttle we could only get to a vote with another space shuttle is retired that is a terrible trajectory to revitalize interface or. Year old. I think I think you can go to person made great progress in space exploration we have to have. A much larger role for the private sector that's not -- such an exclusion of government that it -- an important role for government. But that has to be. Paired with an even larger role -- for private industry. What SpaceX is doing its very important. For many reasons for space exploration. If they are successful and we really hope they are and lowering the cost of kidding. -- went to work. Or getting even material out of war particular from further that will benefit space science. Well those types of things that help -- its most interest to them. Oh boring across it's going to help -- because now it's will be able to do more missions more effective way cheaper. That's going also create competition that is -- though holocaust other governments and over a private industry players. All over there pos if it's successful. Contact. -- What makes this really important is this if we are able to talk with the space station it'll be the first time that it's a privately appliances designed. A spaceship has been -- up with with anything. And that will I think really. Herald the dawn of a new era of space exploration really I really wanna see that both of those people land on bonds. And I mean ideally I'd love to see the beginnings of MySpace. Where it's not just if -- who what's the mood and that was amazing but then we can go back and wisdom is that based on the very sensitive. We we did we set it -- -- to record and it was. There's very inspiring events but it goes so we we went there and you kind of backtracked and and and and I was about our I -- -- kind of what that's been the case bars. The color movement.