SpaceX has one goal that supersedes the rest: to make humanity a “multiplanetary species.”
After 14 years, Elon Musk might finally explain how. On Tuesday, the SpaceX founder will deliver a keynote address at the International Astronautical Congress, an annual convention held in Guadalajara, Mexico. The speech will outline the technical details of Mr. Musk’s ambitious master plan – which is, of course, to colonize Mars within the next few decades.
But the entrepreneur’s rapid-fire approach to progress has been criticized before. Will the SpaceX plan square with international standards of space travel, or will it embody Musk’s freewheeling spirit?
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