Elon Musk and NASA have something in common; the billionaire and the iconic space<br />agency want to take people to places in deep space! While the two have different<br />reasons for the desire, they both face the same limitation of distance, which makes it<br />challenging to build capable spacecraft. To overcome this limitation of having enough<br />fuel for space travel, NASA and Musk's company, SpaceX, have revealed a<br />revolutionary method of propulsion that keeps rockets going forever and ever into deep<br />space! What is this propulsion, how does it work, and how does it affect you? Join us to<br />explore how NASA and SpaceX have finally revealed the Near Speed Light engine!<br />If you are a sci-fi fan, you would have seen space movies where the rocket keeps going<br />and going! While much of the film is focused on the conflicts between the characters,<br />nothing is usually said about how the rocket is powered! But of course, that is the<br />creative freedom movie makers enjoy that allows them to make hit movies that entertain<br />us! However, people that actually send rockets to space will tell you it is not always a<br />bed of roses out there!<br />One sci-fi fan is Musk, the CEO of space exploration company SpaceX. The billionaire<br />has the rare privilege of living out his space dreams, unlike the rest of us. That's why<br />you will see terms lifted from sci-fi in some of the real life products that he builds. One<br />example is the Mechazilla that he says will grab rocket boosters mid-air! However<br />audacious the scheme is, even Musk himself admitted it could fail spectacularly, the<br />illustrious inventor actually derived the name from the Mechagodzilla, a character from<br />the popular Godzilla film franchise!<br />Musk, too, wants to cruise people through space, a goal he shares with NASA!<br />However, the motivations for the two are different! Musk intends to prepare humanity to<br />escape possible catastrophic galactic accidents that could wipe out humanity entirely<br />from the Earth! While you might cringe at the possibility and would rather not consider it,<br />Musk is a practical man and wants to preserve as much slice of humanity as possible in<br />the face of such disasters!<br />This is why Musk wants to set up a human outpost on other plants! The motivation is<br />strong enough that Musk is building what will be the most powerful rocket in history<br />when it is ready! Musk plans to transport at least one million people from Earth to planet<br />Mars within a short time so that the community can become self sufficient! Far removed<br />from Earth, the new colony will not be affected by any disaster people that refuse to<br />leave will face!
