How the super-rich are plotting singles nights on the moon - and who's going to make it to Mars first
The space race has billionaires and superpowers locked in a battle for access says Joe Shute 5 March 2021 • 7:00am SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrating the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket in May 2020 Credit: Joe Raedle/ Getty Images The modern day race to shoot passengers into space has become infernal, quite literally. On Wednesday, a rocket designed by Elon Musk, the 49-year-old CEO of Tesla and founder of space transportation company SpaceX, burst into flames - albeit eight minutes after touchdown, making it a loosely successful test run should the theoretical passengers descend from the...