Commercial Space Flight
Commercial Space Flight
By John Selfors
As technology improves, and as the us government subsidizes space travel the future of humans living on other planets is not far away. This shift in technology and subsidies will allow the cost of sending people to space will increase, as the demand for space travel increases due to people like Elon Musk (as shown in the graph).
As the graph shows there will be an increase in the amount of space travel while the price appears it has either moved up or down.
Elon Musk, the owner of SpaceX wishes to send 1 million people to mars in the mid 2020’s. The one way tickets to mars will be around half a million dollars each. In order to send all the people he plans to make 100,000 trips with a giant spaceship with reusable rocket technology to decrease the cost of sending people to mars.
In the future as technology continues to improve supply with further increase, and rockets become cheaper while more of them are used. Also by launching rockets from locations that have better weather like the new rockets in Texas the launch rate of rockets will be able to be more frequent allowing for more test launches, and subsequently a faster development of technology which will lead to a further increase in supply further dropping price of space travel, and increasing the quantity of space travels.
Sources:
"Elon Musk thinks you could travel to Mars really soon - CNET." CNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musks-mars-vision-is-bigger-than-you-thought/>.
"Mars Ahead? SpaceX Breaks Ground on Texas Spaceport - NBC News." NBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/mars-ahead-spacex-breaks-ground-texas-spaceport-n209136>.
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