SpaceX made history Tuesday with the launch of its first Falcon Heavy rocket, and founder Elon Musk hopes the successful test flight of the world’s most powerful launching system leads to a new space race, according to businessinsider.com.
“I think it’s going to open up a sense of possibility,” Musk said of his freshly demonstrated 23-story launcher. “We want a new space race. Space races are exciting.”
Musk, founder of SpaceX and the Tesla electric car company, hopes the launch will encourage other private companies to step forward and invest in their own space technology.
If that happened, government-funded entities, like NASA, could lose their leadership position in the space race.
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