The fifth attempt – a few, in these enterprises – has done it again and has written a chapter in the history of technology and space exploration: Elon Musk and its Space X were able to land on an offshore platform in ‘ Atlantic the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Cape Canaveral to bring supplies and technologies to the international space station. The main part of the pitcher will in fact be reused thus triggering significant savings in the coming and going with the Earth’s orbit and also the use of a secure and mobile landing as a barge greatly expands the possibilities for use of vectors. And ‘this second chance the real news of the success of the brilliant billionaire South African who has also marked another point in its favor in the personal challenge with Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, who was also deeply involved in the space race, but still considerably behind the rival its rockets Shepard, so far, as equally able to get back to shore, have so far reached 100 km altitude only useful to more to feel emotions to imminent tourists of low orbits, while the Space X from 2012 is the first private company to supply the ISS that hurtling above us at 400 km altitude.
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the Falcon had already managed to get back to the ground last December, but so far the approach the marine platform had failed. It is not yet clear – it should be remembered – because it is not easy to compare costs and performance of launchers now produced by a dozen countries among which Italy with Avio Vega, how much is the savings in order to recover and reuse the the first stage of the rocket. The space epic has repeatedly shown that future technologies sometimes end up costing too much and to be less reliable than the traditional ones, but it is certain that the innovation introduced by Space X and its successes will force the entire industry to review the accounts and strategies in a period when the frontier of space exploration with human participation has definitely shifted to Mars. Also the inspiration has always been decisive propellant in space affairs and it is undeniable that elegance no longer science fiction with which the Falcon takes off and lands is
Talents like Elon Musk, then, 101st richest man in world with a personal fortune of $ 12 billion, represent the novelty of recent years when private companies afffiancano traditions public agencies which have hitherto led the dancing. Musk co-founded PayPal, the payment system through the Internet, and Tesla, the company that is already flooding the market with electric cars high performance and cost, finally affordable. And the very fact that an enterprising genius and inexhaustible resources such as musk is inspired by the insights and discoveries of the revolutionary Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla-amaricano does not pose limits to its future business.
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