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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, on May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Elon Musk, entrepreneur and innovator who was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, said that SpaceX is starting a program to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to be made fuel rocket. He also said the innovations his company is working on in space technology and aerospace “will also be important for (exploration on) Mars”.
As scientists have known so far, carbon dioxide the atmosphere is one of the few things that can be used to power the return journey from Mars.
“SpaceX start a program to take CO2 from the atmosphere & convert it into fuel rocket,” Musk said in a tweet on December 14, 2021, as reported by IFL Science.
“Come join if you’re interested,” Musk added.
How people got to “join” the project is not clear. That’s just one of many unanswered questions related to the project.
The rush of flights to the edge of space has sparked criticism of the damage such missions inflict on the atmosphere, even from one center to another. Unlike Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic, SpaceX somewhat sheltered from such criticism because the assistance it provided for NASA research was deemed more useful.
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