The US Boeing Company announced that it is going to outpace Elon Musk’s SpaceX in sending a human to Mars, Bloomberg reports. “I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,” Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO said. He added that his corporation intends to create the new sector of commerce space exploration, just as SpaceX. Muilenburg believes that over the next couple of decades the space tourism will blossom into a viable and popular service, and the International Space Station will open dozens of hotels and companies pursuing microgravity research in the low-earth orbit.
Boeing is going to create a spacecraft for the new generation of tourists. He also underlined potential of a hypersonic aircraft moving three times faster than the speed of sound.
