Space Tourism

If you gazed upon the moon and wished to go beyond the stars, you are one of the many people who fantasies about venturing into space.

Several private companies such as Virgin Galactic and Space X plan to launch space tourism, orbital/suborbital flights, for the rich and wealthy as it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Experts stipulates that by 2021, global space tourism will generate $34 billion.

The journey promises to be life changing as it helps travelers gain a deeper and fundamental worldview. Several prominent figures have shown great interest in partaking in this adventure, the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, Ashton Kutcher, have signed on to the project.

By 2025 Space X is even set to provide flights beyond the moon, more precisely to Mars.

So if you fancy space tourism, it is time to start saving some money 🙂

The Real Iron Man

If you are familiar with comic books and the Marvel world, you surely heard of the fictional superhero: Tony Stark, the genius billionaire engineer, who creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil thus becoming Iron Man.

Whilst Elon Reeve Musk  is a technology entrepreneur and engineer founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX;  co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People.  As of October 2018, he has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.

At first glance, one cannot shake the ironic similarities between the fictional Tony Stark, a tech-entrepreneur, genius inventor, and absolute playboy who is the CEO of Stark Industries, and Elon Musk who heads the Tesla empire which brought fully-electric vehicles to the mass market.

Whilst Tony Stark,  uses his technical knowledge to create armors which he uses to counterattack those that would threaten peace around the world, Elon Musk uses his genius to blur the boundaries between earth and the sky, striving to save earth from an eco-disaster.

Thanks to Tesla, he was able to provide people with an eco-alternative, winning them over by proving that they didn’t need to compromise to drive electric; they can have their cool sports cars that are simply electric. So they can still enjoy the particularities of a fast car whilst being eco-friendly.   Tesla’s tycoon Elon Musk, believes the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zero-emission future, the better. Tesla designed the world’s first ever premium all-electric sedan from the ground up – Model S – which has become the best car in its class in every category.  Tesla continues to make products accessible and affordable to more and more people, ultimately accelerating the advent of clean transport and clean energy production. Electric cars, batteries, and renewable energy generation and storage already exist independently, but when combined, they become even more powerful.

Elon Musk also in his quest for humanity’s salvation is seeking to offer them an alternative lodging, in the galaxy, more precisely on Mars. He launched his aero company for this motive; SpaceX, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. valued at more than $20 billion, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.  Musk believes that by 2050, he will build a self-sufficient city on Mars, and offer cheap trips thanks to SpaceX’s new rocket ship, called Starship. Thus enabling people to “sell their home on Earth & move to Mars if they want”, as reported by Elon Musk.

For a billionaire, Elon has a great heart, in 2015 Musk gifted 1.2 million Tesla shares to his foundation, which spent $480,000 in late 2018 to provide clean drinking water to schools in Flint, Michigan.

It took one tweet from a complete stranger, Mabz@MabzMagz, urging Musk to help save the 12 Thailand boys and their coach trapped out in a flooded cave, to spring him into action. Like a summoned IronMan, within five days Musk’s engineers had built a mini-submarine and delivered it to the rescue team.

Elon Musk, like his alter ego, Tony Stark, has his inner-demons and struggles; however, he is undeniably a genius and has the noblest intentions although his delivery is, sometimes, questionable.