Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Gizmag: SpaceX Dragon's ultimate mission is Mars colonization

Kardashevian Aspirations: SpaceX Dragon's ultimate mission is Mars colonizat...: gizmag.com h/t Transterrestrial Musings excerpts: Musk said that he wants to see 10,000 people living on Mars in the near future - pref...

Mixing politics with space doesn't appear to work.  Just ask Gingrich.  Kennedy didn't run on the proposal of a moon landing.  The Apollo program came afterwards.

Perhaps the best you can hope for is that the government will stay out of the way.

Update:

Governments can grant charters- such as the Hudson Bay Company.  That's the model that may work, if anybody cares to remember it.

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