Elon Musk Moves Mars Landing Target Year Forward By Two Years To 2022
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Elon Musk with SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in the background at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Image: Reuters
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SpaceX) Chief Executive Officer Mr. Elon Musk has reiterated the company's planned first flight to Mars. SpaceX, which was formed in 2002 by Musk to enable interplanetary spaceflight and bring down the cost of launching payloads to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond has partially met the latter of these objectives. The company's Falcon 9 rocket lineup, the first of its kind in human history capable of successfully landing its first stage booster brings down these costs by reducing the cost of re-manufacturing an entire rocket to conduct consecutive launches.