NASA returns to Elon Musk. Let us analyze the reasons behind it are. The shuttle program NASA was once the pride and joy of the agency. Now he is trying to talk to two companies: Boeing and SpaceX.
Before the land of the program in 2011, NASA flew 135 missions, 37 of which were with the International Space Station, the most expensive object ever built one, with an estimated 150 million in the full cost.
The International Space Station is a floating laboratory in space traveling at a speed of 17.240 miles per hour around the planet every 90 minutes. (Oh, and despite being located in low Earth orbit, about 250 miles up, the resort has a region code of Houston.)
So why give the job to Boeing and SpaceX? NASA wants to pursue something much sexier.
This week, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spent time talking about these great ambitions while:
"We will carry out the missions that everyone puts their own impressive list of firsts. First team to visit and collect samples from an asteroid. Primera crew to fly beyond the orbit of the moon. Perhaps the first team to grow their own food and eat all in the space prepared us for the next leap for mankind. the first team to land on and take action on the surface of Mars. "
Even so, NASA will not be able to remove itself, at least according to Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind SpaceX.
"My best guess is that the creation of an autonomous city on Mars will have some participation from NASA," he told CNN musk. "But I think it will be a public-private partnership. Perhaps more private than public."
The reason? Cost and bureaucracy. "No matter how smart someone in the government, but simply can not be achieved with the structure," said Musk.
"I do not think NASA could establish an autonomous city on Mars simply because it would be prohibitive. If NASA made the traditional way of government, the cost of this operation would exceed the federal budget. "
But fear not geeks before March Space is not the LEO. And both Boeing (BA) and SpaceX think recent contracts from NASA marked a milestone in the emergence of the industry, "space tourism".
NASA plans to use Boeing and SpaceX Dragon CST100 4 shuttle astronauts to the space station on every mission.
However, the two capsules are configured to carry 5 passengers.
Boeing will work with its partner, Space Adventures to provide additional seats for space tourists.
Boeing has also worked with Bigelow Aerospace, a space technology company working on the development of scalable space station modules, so that countries that want to be space-faring countries have access to habitat Bigelow. Bigelow also expressed interest in developing space hotels.
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