“If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination.”
#BARS! I’m reading this piece making the case against human exploration of #Mars, and it’s crushing my childhood dreams and also making too much sense. This line above though! Have you read the piece?
@baratunde Good article! Fun read!
Minor nit: the article assumes that the only two viable paths to a (misguided) human powered Mars mission are "NASA" or "SpaceX." But China is the furthest along on a planned human powered Mars mission.
Everyone forgets that China has its own space station, has rockets powerful enough to get to Mars, landed a rover on Mars (Zhurong), and has a human powered Mars mission scheduled for 2033.
Baratunde
mekka okereke 