The Best of all Newcomers

We are bounded in a nutshell of Infinite Space: Week 10: Free Form #14: The Best of all Newcomers  

Within the bounds of space news, you can’t get much more interesting than advances in rocket technologies and new and exciting ways of how we will continue getting to space. One huge advancement in the past months and years has been the development of private space companies, dedicated exclusively to the research and development of finding more affordable ways of getting to space and using existing and future technology to arrive at the goals of our exploration. One such company is SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002. A newcomer in the realm of aerospace corporations inhabited by titans like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, SpaceX boasts some of the most impressive technological improvements on space flight seen since the great pushes of innovation in the early days of the space race. In fact, just last weekend the pioneers successfully landed a spent solid rocket booster, after it was jettisoned by the payload arriving to the International Space Station, onto a barge-drone which successfully positioned to receive the incoming rocket, from SPACE. 

These are the frontiers of science fictions which are pushed today, the incredible feats which will push humanity towards new eras of exploration and discovery. Furthermore, SpaceX is developing several rockets to establish the future of space-travel, specifically the Heavy Falcon Tri-Booster Rocket system which will launch the missions SpaceX expects to send in the future. 

However, for all incredible feats SpaceX has accomplished, it still maintains a critical problem when considering how they expect to mount an expedition to Mars. Fundamentally, they are a company, and no matter the advances and loose capital, there is not free reign on the part of true visionaries for the future, as I believe Elon Musk to be, to simply go in pursuit of scientific discovery, for there is no revenue in sending people to Mars. However, SpaceX is developing the technologies which rival if not beat the established companies’ technologies, and as such could become the primary aerospace company for space agencies in the near future, as it has become for NASA in sending payloads to the ISS. Regardless of the scientific prospects of SpaceX, the fact remains they are pushing the boundaries of science and engineering, and as such will be crucial in the dawn of interplanetary travel, but until groups as “free” as NASA to explore scientific questions, with less accountability to stockholders and boards, are able to prepare, train, and develop the missions which take us to Mars, I doubt private sectors would be able to do anything similar. For it was not the Medici Bank which sent Columbus to America, but rather the Kings of Spain, people with enough free capital to see the value of exploration, beyond the scope of returns.

References: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&ebc=ANyPxKpmf6gjojs_KZuAqsNVI4cFh3G29cFQE7wQ72Dg205rJS2P254XVMhGUQnJHqBjpBq8NHNojel9zEE7ZrQ7OC4R4_HZUw&nohtml5=False

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-rocket-20160411-story.html