long time ago, a man named dennis muilenburg, who was the boss of a big company called boeing, said that his company would send people to live on a planet called mars before another man named elon musk, who had a different big company called spacex, could do it. but now, spacex is helping boeing bring astronauts back to earth from a special house in space called the international space station. Read from source...
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The article by Benzinga Editor, Anan Ashraf titled `Boeing's Former CEO Dennis Muilenburg Said In 2017 His Company Will Beat Elon Musk To Mars. 7 Years Later, It Has Been Forced To Abandon NASA Astronauts At ISS, Who Will Now Be Rescued By SpaceX` provides a fascinating read on the historic statement made by Dennis Muilenburg, the then-CEO of Boeing, in December 2017. His bold assertion that Boeing would be the first to send a person to Mars on one of their rockets had Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, accepting the challenge. Fast forward seven years, and the narrative changes. NASA has to turn to SpaceX to bring back the astronauts who went to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Boeing spacecraft. The article gives a detailed account of the back and forth in the race to Mars and the collaboration that is needed to make such ambitious space endeavors a success.