We Don’t Need Elon Musk to Explore the Solar System
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/elon-musk-space-exploration-mars-colonization
The real business of SpaceX was never a Martian colony but rather servicing a mature satellite market, stealing government space contracts from the likes of Boeing, and kicking off a terrestrial rocket transport sector. The dream of Mars is, in this case, not really any different from the adman’s fiction of romance and aspiration that sells a can of Pepsi or a Jeep.