SpaceX: Company Will Dominate Solar System By 2100

By  //  July 29, 2014

Hear SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell

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Gwynne Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell

ABOVE AUDIO: Hear SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell in conversation with Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson, in which she predicts within 10 years SpaceX could be sending people to Mars, she said, fulfilling CEO Elon Musk’s ambition to make the human race “multiplanetary.”

Shotwell also said that by 2100 or 2200, SpaceX would be the most widely used space transport company in the Solar System.