SpaceX ambitions

Given my stakes in SpaceX, I'm genuinely interested in any progress it has made and happy for any success it has shown. Hope Musk can turn SpaceX as successful as Tesla or even more successful. After all, what SpaceX is doing may fundamentally change mankind. 

I forwarding a note written by some SpaceX fan about the recent achievement by SpaceX! 

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Splashdown!!!

Yesterday afternoon, I watched the live return of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The mission launched on May 30, making it about a two-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS).

What a beautiful sight.

Crew Dragon Endeavour Splashdown

Source: NASA

Why is this such a big deal? Well, it has been 45 years since the last splashdown from an Apollo mission in 1975. It is hard to imagine that we were going to the Moon all the way back in the '70s. And it's also the last milestone for SpaceX's human spaceflight system to be officially certified by NASA.

This is such an incredible accomplishment for SpaceX. It has completely disrupted the aerospace industry in just 18 years and run circles around its primary competitor for a spaceflight system… Boeing.

The current schedule is to launch another crew aboard Dragon come September with four astronauts. And the spacecraft seen in the picture above will be refurbished and prepared for its next launch in the first half of next year.

This was the first time a private company launched astronauts into orbit – and, of course, returned them home safely. What an exciting day for space exploration.

What's next for SpaceX?

• Build out and spin out its Starlink business – a space-based internet backbone in Earth's orbit

• The first private lunar mission – a flyby of the Moon (2023)

• NASA lunar mission, including landing SpaceX's Starship on the Moon (2024?)

• And then… mission to Mars?

How's that for ambitious…?