POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Infotrac, Solarcity, Elon Musk
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Introduction: introduce elon musk himself: briefly explain who he is and what other projects he is known for. (he is the founder and ceo of tesla, co-founder of solarcity, founder and ceo of. Neuralink, and of course spacex: talk about the mission goal and justify the reasoning of becoming a multiplanetary civilization. The rocket basically lands in the same position as it was launched: the spacex team has done 17 consecutive landings as of august 2017 and plan on doing. 3 more by the end of the year. Saturn v where after the mission only 10-15% of the rocked was reused (i would like to have a couple of pictures or diagrams for better visualization of the rocket) Each crew ship carry"s around (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882) people, their mission will be to set up propellant production plant and build up base for expansion.