Elon Musk has spent nearly two decades rallying SpaceX fans around his goal of colonizing Mars, something world governments aren’t currently attempting — in part because of the unfathomable price tag ...

You do know that innovation is not automatically tied to privatization and not automatically afraid of state run programs right? One can bemoan the lack of risk taking on the part of older programs ...

For those into sci-fi, I enjoyed Greg Bear's War Dogs trilogy (mostly) set on Mars, and he touches on colonization in the first novel at least. The colonists are called "Muskies" Personally, I never ...