For quite some time we have seen how large multinationals are emerging, financed in very different ways from each other, that literally have their sights set on offer any human being trips outside our planet. There is still a long way to go, although it is also very true that this market is one of the ones that moves the most money today and one of the most valuable in the long term, hence huge amounts of money are invested in this fight to be the first .
With this in mind, it is not surprising that if, referring to the facts, it seems that SpaceX It is the one that has the most going for it to be the first private company to carry out this type of mission, now we find another of the great protagonists, in this case Boeing, which has just affirmed, through the mouth of its top managers, that it will be your rockets that manage to take astronauts to Mars.
The CEO of Boeing believes that the first astronaut to reach Mars will do so thanks to his company's rockets
Going into a little more detail, tell you that these statements about Boeing's technology being the one that will take astronauts to Mars for the first time have been made by none other than its current CEO, Dennis muilenburg, while being interviewed by Jim Cramer for a CNBC show. In this way, and when asked if it would finally be him or Elon Musk who would take a human being to the Moon first, the CEO of Boeing replied:
Eventually we will get to Mars and I am convinced that the first person to set foot on Mars will get there in a Boeing rocket.
These statements are also transmitted to the medium Fortune, the same medium where the CEO of Boeing also wanted to make a brief explanation of the medium and long-term plans he had for the company he runs. Once the stone was 'thrown' and these statements reached social networks, how could it be otherwise, they had a quick response from Elon Musk, which he answered with a forceful: 'Do it'
At Boeing, despite delays, they expect their new rocket to be ready to fly to the moon in 2019
Leaving aside for a moment the 'pique'that exists between Dennis Muilenburg and Elon Musk, the interviewers wanted to delve a little more into the future plans that Boeing has on this subject and thanks to this we learned that the company is already working and investing a lot of resources in the manufacture of what which they call the next generation of rockets. To carry out this project, the collaboration of NASA itself has been requiredThanks to this, it seems that this new rocket is already in its final assembly phase and its first test flight should take place in 2019.
Personally, I must confess that again we are facing a fight of two great titans, although there are truly many more large and small companies that are looking for their piece of cake but do not give much hype about what they do internally to achieve their objectives. This duel, like that experienced by other large companies, will make the real beneficiaries, in this case, the users who will use this kind of service, since competitiveness will make it possible to go even further in the development of new technologies in a much shorter period of time.
What we cannot or should not rather is to question the huge amount of funds that all these companies are investing for achieving a common goal for the entire human species, such as being able to travel outside of our beloved planet Earth to reach the ends of the universe, a milestone that we have always sought as human beings and that, at this moment, seems to be much closer .