A Question Only Elon Musk Can Answer
Why hasn’t he gone to space yet?
Updated at 11:51 a.m. ET on September 22, 2021.
On the day that SpaceX’s first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to the Teslas that would take them to suit up. And after they landed safely, having orbited Earth about 45 times, Musk was there again to congratulate them in person.
The marked SpaceX’s fourth successful human spaceflight, and a SpaceX official the company wants to fly paying customers “three, four, five, six times a year at least.” In this era’s space race among private companies, Musk’s SpaceX pulled ahead on essentially every measure but one—giving the CEO a lift above the atmosphere. Branson , Bezos —so why
