{"id":18713,"date":"2017-12-07T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeings-dennis-muilenburg-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars-elon-musk-says-do-it\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T22:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:43:52","slug":"boeings-dennis-muilenburg-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars-elon-musk-says-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeings-dennis-muilenburg-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars-elon-musk-says-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Dennis Muilenburg says he\u2019ll beat SpaceX to Mars; Elon Musk says \u2018Do it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s conception shows NASA\u2019s Space Launch System in flight. (NASA Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what does SpaceX CEO Elon Musk think of Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg\u2019s claim that the first people to set foot on Mars will arrive on a Boeing rocket? \u201cDo it,\u201d Musk tweeted, in one of many two-word comebacks that might have come to mind.<\/p>\n

The latest round of media jousting started when CNBC\u2019s Jim Cramer brought up Mars during an interview with Muilenburg. \u201cWho\u2019s going to get a man on Mars first, you or Elon Musk?\u201d Cramer asked.<\/p>\n

In response, Muilenburg touted the Space Launch System, the heavy-lift rocket that Boeing is helping NASA build for deep-space missions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to take a first test flight in 2019, and we\u2019re going to do a slingshot mission around the moon,\u201d he said. \u201cEventually, we\u2019re going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muilenburg said pretty much the same thing last year during an industry conference in Chicago, but since then, Musk has laid out a vision that calls for sending settlers to Mars on SpaceX\u2019s yet-to-be-built monster spaceship starting in the 2020s.<\/p>\n

If Musk and NASA stick to their current schedules, the first bootprints on the Martian surface would be left by folks arriving on a SpaceX rocket as much as a decade before the Space Launch System sends a spaceship there.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX\u2019s Elon Musk and Boeing\u2019s Dennis Muilenburg have something of a space rivalry going on. (Elon Musk via Twitter; Dennis Muilenburg via Boeing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is Musk\u2019s response a dare? A space-race smackdown? Maybe. But the billionaire has always said his main goal in life is to help make humanity a multiplanet species by facilitating cities on Mars. Taken in that light, the \u201cDo It\u201d tweet may well be Musk\u2019s way of saying that he\u2019s glad for anyone else to be taking the move to Mars as seriously as he is.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how John Gardi, an engineer and SpaceX fan who anticipated Musk\u2019s hyperloop design in 2013, chooses to see the exchange. \u201cYou win either way, @elonmusk!\u201d Gardi said in his tweeted response. \u201cYou can only lose if NOBODY goes to Mars!\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Boeing and SpaceX are enmeshed in a shorter-term rivalry, to finish work on the space taxis that they\u2019re building to transport NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

The current schedules call for SpaceX to conduct a crewed demonstration flight with its Dragon capsule next August, while Boeing plans the first crewed flight of its Starliner space taxi in November 2018. But those schedules have been shifting to the right for years, so it\u2019s too early to call the race.<\/p>\n

The first to deliver astronauts to the space station will win a U.S. flag that was left aboard the outpost in 2011 by the last space shuttle crew. May the best team win? I prefer to look at it the way Gardi does: In this space race, may all teams win.<\/p>\n

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An artist\u2019s conception shows NASA\u2019s Space Launch System in flight. (NASA Illustration) So what does SpaceX CEO Elon Musk think of Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg\u2019s claim that the first people to set foot on Mars will arrive on a Boeing rocket? \u201cDo it,\u201d Musk tweeted, in one of many two-word comebacks that might have come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[670,4997,1395,1045,316,1306],"class_list":["post-18713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-dennis-muilenburg","tag-dragon","tag-elon-musk","tag-spacex","tag-starliner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}