60 Minutes

Elon Musk is not only the founder of PayPal and Tesla but also the Tony Stark billionaire entrepreneur Ironman inspiration who has vowed to revolutionize space flight. His company – SpaceX, wants to commercialize space the same way that transoceanic shipping and airflight routes were commercialized during the 16th and 20th centuries respectively. What used to require super-power state support in the form of tens of billions of dollars in funding spent often on tens of thousands of researchers now costs mere tens of millions and can be achieved by teams of a few dozen ingenious inventors and engineers supplemented by a thousand skilled rocket builders and technicians. SpaceX actually proved that concept in 2010 by becoming the first ever private company to launch a spacecraft – their Dragon capsule, which orbited the globe twice and then was safely retrieved after a [...]