Elon Musk is on his way to Mars, one explosion at a time
The sight of a rocket falling out of the sky and producing a billowing ball of flame does not instil confidence. After witnessing the back-to-back failures of SpaceX Starship prototypes in December and early February, it seems appropriate to ask if Elon Musk’s vision of sending thousands of humans to Mars aboard these spacecrafts might just be a tad flawed. Elon Musk and SpaceX have already been tested by much more gruelling hardships: the last high-profile failed takeoffs almost killed the company. Six years had come and gone since he founded SpaceX, and Musk had gone all in on the rocket company, investing time, money, and emotional toil. “At that time I had to allocate a lot of capital to Tesla and SolarCity, so I was out of money,” Musk told me in an interview in the fall of 2019, as we flew on his private jet from the SpaceX factory in California to the Starship launch site in South Texas.
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