How SpaceX OUTRAN NASA 100%

Humans have been roaming the planet Earth for quite some time. We’ve been here for approximately 6 million years. So you would think that we're very knowledgeable of our surroundings by now. But that's not the case. Still, 80 percent of the world's oceans remain uncharted, unexplored, and undiscovered. This is an incredible number and it appears that we know even less about space.
To this date, scientists have only explored about 4 percent of the visible universe with telescopes. So, a lot is to be further investigated. Two companies are leading the way for future discoveries. They are SpaceX and NASA. These two are very different and have sometimes come head to head in recent years. but how exactly does their relationship impact the future of space travel?

Start your engines because in today’s video we’ll be taking a deep dive into the SpaceX and NASA interrelation.

Launching humans and goods into space used to be dominated by government agencies that worked with large aerospace companies only. But not anymore. In the past two decades, startup space companies have proven they can compete with and in some cases outperform their larger counterparts on their own. There’s no better example of this than SpaceX, the Hawthorne, California-based company that lands their used rocket boosters creating scenes that seem straight out of science fiction. In this story, They are the underdog that emerges victorious.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and know both of these organizations a little bit better first...

How did this begin? On October 1, 1958, one of the founding fathers of space travel, President Dwight D Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA. Most space achievements that took place in the U.S. during the early days were accomplished by them. For example, from being the first agency taking people to the moon to creating the first U.S. satellite, NASA is a government agency in the United States that’s funded by taxpayers and has more than a dozen locations across the country. Their budget is set through a political process, with nearly half of it going to the human spaceflight program. Another third of this budget goes to its science division, which includes Earth science, astrophysics, planetary science, and heliophysics. They also send out spacecraft to investigate and explore planets and other worlds.

In addition, NASA conducts aerospace research and provides funding for different space technology development initiatives. According to studies, the agency provides the United States with a broad range of social and economic benefits.

Decades later, CEO Elon Musk who is known for founding the electric and self-driving vehicle company Tesla, also created SpaceX. This American startup had a single purpose in mind: to colonize Mars. Musk always had a dream to make humans a multi-planetary species. According to him, humanity's long-term survival is in danger if it stays limited to just this one planet. Sooner or later, some disaster, maybe a supervolcano, asteroid, or nuclear war, will end our stay here. Musk hopes that colonizing another planet would help reduce the strain on ours which is running out of resources fast.

Musk has done incredibly well for himself. He and his crew have been able to transform SpaceX from nothing to something magnificent. Well, when I say nothing, it doesn’t mean that he started without any money. Before Musk launched SpaceX, he had many other companies. One of them is PayPal, an online payment service provider that he sold for 1.5 billion dollars and used the proceeds to later launch SpaceX.

NASA is mostly known for its International Space Station, a low-earth-orbit space laboratory that’s 408 kilometers above our heads and traveling at a speed of 7.66 kilometers per second. That's more than 17,000 miles per hour! It was launched in 1998 as a joint venture between agencies like the American NASA, the Russian Roscosmos the Japanese JAXA, the European ISSA, and the Canadian CSA. This global endeavor was designed to advance our research while also serving as the world's first permanently manned earth-orbiting station.

Other achievements include the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, which have already traveled to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Both of these space probes have since gone beyond what was previously thought to ever be possible. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, a place beyond the heliosphere where the sun's heated winds collide with a cooler and denser medium. Voyager 2 crossed the boundary six years later, carrying with it a first-of-a-kind sensor that will allow scientists to perform new types of measurements.

SpaceX is a company that is still in its infancy when compared to the established NASA, which has a more multinational reach.

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[thesurvivalist.]

It’s a lot different when a company has its own missions in space, and are not just trying to make money. The drive to innovate to make it easier to access space, drives down the cost for everyone, and open up space to more and more folks! Because they are constantly improving their technology, all companies have to up their game, or be left decades behind as they gain market share!

[benpezzot]

Maybe they have complete control of what they want while NASA has to do whet the government wants

[pebmets]

Musk did not found Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were the founders.
When you mention the retiring of the Shuttle Program, maybe you should have actually shown the shuttle, not Orion or SLS.

[brandongovreau]

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