SpaceX it is changing the way in which humans will begin to explore space in the not too distant future. The truth is that, if at first everything seemed the result of the hilarious mentality of a person with a desire for leadership, that's how many analysts defined Elon Musk A few years ago, it now seems that your idea of what space missions should look like may change the future of humanity.
Surely you will still remember how not too long ago space travel and exploration only advanced while NASA or, to a lesser extent, Roscosmos, dared to launch a probe and, over the years, give some other information about the themselves, missions that looked pale before agencies that year after year began to receive less and less economic resources to commit them. Now everything seems to have changed thanks precisely to the privatization of a sector, something that has given fresh air to it by making it develop and present technologies that, at least not too long ago, they were unthinkable.
SpaceX wants to handle the transportation of astronauts from Earth to the Space Station in 2019
Leaving behind all the history behind the career that several private companies are carrying out in this sector, today I would like us to talk about the short-term plans that Elon Musk has for SpaceX, where we learn that the company has in mind take the first of your astronauts to the International Space Station in 2019.
As you well know, one of the most recurring themes when we hear Elon Musk speak is mainly about his intention that his company be the first to take humans into outer space. To do this, they first have to develop certain components such as the new rocket. Falcon Heavy, which will be put into orbit in a few days and that, once all its tests are finished, will be in charge of taking SpaceX's first manned flight into space.
SpaceX owes much of its experience to the agreement still in force reached with NASA in 2012
Undoubtedly when we talk about SpaceX, as a private company, we must understand that its great potential, especially in terms of the acquisition of resources, has not only come thanks to big investment rounds, but because as clients they have agencies with the purchasing power of NASA. An example we have in the agreement, in force since 2012, that SpaceX has with NASA through which they must refuel the International Space Station.
Thanks to this agreement, something that gives investors a lot of confidence to continue betting economically on SpaceX, the company has managed to develop knowledge that, otherwise, would have been very difficult if not impossible. On the other hand and thanks to NASA, SpaceX can 'boast"the having successfully carried out twelve of the thirteen missions carried out in outer space during the last five years.
Thanks to the good work of SpaceX and the tense relationship with Russia, Elon Musk's company will be in charge of transporting and returning the astronauts to Earth
With such results, it is not surprising that NASA has decided that the time has come to trust even more in the work developed by Elon Musk's company, making them, from now on, in charge of, in addition to fuel, bring food and equipment to the crew of the International Space Station as well as returning waste and cargo that is not necessary in space to Earth.
With this new agreement and, especially taking into account the tense relations that currently exist between the United States and Russia, a country that was in charge of the transportation and repatriation of astronauts, it is not surprising that SpaceX has been entrusted with this task, which for now, at least until they complete the tests of their new rocket, they are not able to carry out This is why the first SpaceX astronaut to reach the International Space Station is scheduled to do so sometime in 2019.