{"id":18245,"date":"2018-12-06T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/move-over-elon-boeing-ceo-dennis-muilenburg-absolutely-would-go-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:28:16","slug":"move-over-elon-boeing-ceo-dennis-muilenburg-absolutely-would-go-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/move-over-elon-boeing-ceo-dennis-muilenburg-absolutely-would-go-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over, Elon: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg \u2018absolutely\u2019 would go to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_466781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466781\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-466781\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/181206-panel-630x362.jpg\" alt=\"Business Roundtable panel\" width=\"630\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/181206-panel-630x362.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/181206-panel-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/181206-panel-1260x725.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/181206-panel.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-466781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNBC\u2019s Becky Quick, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson look on as Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg talks about his Red Planet aspirations. (CNBC \/ BRT via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg often says that the first person to set foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing-built rocket, but at today\u2019s Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit, he made it personal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you go?\u201d CNBC anchor Becky Quick, the moderator for today\u2019s panel on trends in American innovation, asked Muilenburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would,\u201d the CEO answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally?\u201d Quick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Muilenburg said.<\/p>\n<p>Muilenburg made repeated reference to spaceflight and Boeing\u2019s plans to participate in missions to the moon and Mars in the context of the company\u2019s farthest-flung frontiers for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s basically on board with the plans for exploration beyond Earth orbit that have been laid out by NASA and the White House. Those plans call for the development of a Gateway for operations in lunar orbit during the 2020s, facilitated by NASA\u2019s heavy-lift Space Launch System (built in part by Boeing).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to go back to the moon,\u201d Muilenburg said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This is much different from Apollo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s plan calls for crewed missions to Mars and its moons to begin in the 2030s, powered by the Space Launch System. That\u2019s the basis for Muilenburg\u2019s Boeing-first claim when it comes to Red Planet walkabouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confident that\u2019s going to happen, I\u2019d say before I finish my Boeing career,\u201d the 54-year-old CEO said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"#BRTxInnovation: Ambitious Innovation to Sustain U.S.  Leadership\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hhwWqKax1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s chief competitor in the spaceflight business is SpaceX, founded by billionaire CEO Elon Musk. Last month, the 47-year-old Musk said there\u2019s a 70 percent chance that he\u2019ll move to Mars, even though he noted \u201cthere\u2019s a good chance you die there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Muilenburg isn\u2019t anticipating a one-way flight. \u201cWe only go to Mars on round trips,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As we found out during October\u2019s GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Muilenburg has already tried on a Boeing spacesuit. One of his fellow panelists at today\u2019s summit in Washington, D.C., JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, was tickled by the idea of seeing his Boeing counterpart on the final frontier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he puts his foot down, he\u2019s going to say, \u2018This is one giant leap for mankind, but only one little step for Dennis Muilenburg,\u201d Dimon joked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other nuggets from the Business Roundtable Summit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muilenburg said space exploration \u201cis going to benefit multiple industrial sectors,\u201d just as the Apollo effort of the 1960s spawned a host of high-tech spinoffs. But it\u2019ll be essential to boost education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, known collectively as STEM. \u201cThis country\u2019s short about 2 million STEM workers, compared to what we need in the industry,\u201d Muilenburg said. \u201cThat\u2019s a place where government and industry can work together.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Repeating a prediction he made at the GeekWire Summit, Muilenburg said Boeing would be fielding a prototype flying car next year (presumably in league with Aurora Flight Sciences, its recently acquired subsidiary). Dimon said he and a fellow high-profile panelist, AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson, would be \u201csome of the first buyers of these cars\u201d&nbsp;\u2014 and Muilenburg took note. \u201cI\u2019ll get you guys lined up,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<li>Stephenson said high-speed 5G telecommunications networks will change \u201chow the world works.\u201d He said the United States \u201cis definitely ahead\u201d of other countries in the race to 5G, but voiced concern about competition from China. \u201cAll the software associated with the equipment that goes into these networks is developed where? China,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you have these weak links that I think we as a country are going to have to deal with.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Dimon said the health-care venture that his company and billionaire Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway firm are developing with Amazon will be a \u201clong-term thing,\u201d aimed at leveraging wellness programs as well as technology to reduce costs. \u201cIt\u2019s not meant [just] for the three of us,\u201d the JPMorgan Chase CEO said. \u201cInitially, it\u2019ll be us. It\u2019ll be open to everybody. We\u2019re hoping that as we learn things, we\u2019ll share with the whole world.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC\u2019s Becky Quick, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson look on as Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg talks about his Red Planet aspirations. 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