Cutting-edge technology enabling settlement of the solar system and beyond – Art by Rick Guidice / NASA
In a thread on Twitter, Kevin Cannon suggests that suppliers for services that SpaceX will need to settle Mars such as sanitation, medical supplies, entertainment, finance and others, get started sooner rather then later laying out their plans if they want to be selected to help settle a new world.
Eric Berger chronicles the ten year history of SpaceX’s flagship launch vehicle. The versatile, reusable workhorse has been the proving ground for the technology that will make Elon Musk’s vision of low cost interplanetary space travel a reality in the near future.
In what is sure to be a historic flight next year, Axiom has inked a deal with SpaceX to be the first space tourism company to arrange for three private astronauts to be ferried to the ISS on a Crew Dragon. A fourth space flight participant will be a SpaceX trained astronaut. Axiom has plans for a permanent replacement of the ISS to provide a permanent habitat, scientific and industrial facility in LEO