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