What Their Plan Is
Gwynne Shotwell is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX. She was full of praise for this mission. “This is really just the beginning. We are starting the journey of bringing people regularly to and from low Earth orbit, then onto the moon and then ultimately onto Mars,” she said. It is an ambitious plan, so we hope that their plans have not been derailed by what happened off the coast of Florida.
What Made It So Special
By now, it is common knowledge that Elon Musk founded SpaceX. The company has since grown to have more than 6,000 employees. The Dragon spacecraft of the firm can seat two astronauts. It is considered a big engineering feat. On the website of the company, the Dragon has been described this way: “It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station.”