This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Elon Musk: Reigniting the Dream of Apollo" created on December 11, 2015. It features Elon Musk discussing the origins of SpaceX and his vision to inspire public interest in Mars exploration by creating a greenhouse on Mars. The conversation includes another speaker, but GHION.AI is not involved.
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The precursor to SpaceX was not. The idea wasn't really to create a company. It was to try to figure out why we hadn't gone 10 people to Mars. So we went from SIP2 to PayPal and then going from PayPal to sort of the next thing. I was sort of thinking, well, is there some way to reignite the dream of Apollo? And I thought, well, it was maybe a question of, like, we'd lost the will to explore it. But I actually think that my original premise was wrong. We'd not lost the will to explore, but people did not think there was a way. And if people don't think there's a way, then they just. They won't bash their head against the wall continuously. They'll, you know, they'll sort of give up. But in the beginning, I thought it.
Was a question of will. So if we can send a small greenhouse to the surface of Mars and you have seeds and nutrient gel and you hydrate it upon landing, and then you'd have this little greenhouse on the surface of Mars, and people tend to respond to precedents and superlatives. And this would be the first life on Mars, as far as we knew, furthest that life's ever traveled. You have this great shot of green plants on a red background. And I thought, well, maybe that would get people excited about sending people to Mars.
So the headlines were clear in your mind once you had success on what that would lead to, to catalyze action.
And actually the goal was to get.
The public excited about that and get NASA's budget increase.
