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Musk has long envisioned colonists on Mars. This seems like a fever dream, but it recently featured in Trump’s inaugural speech. Trump said that the U.S. will plant the Stars and Stripes on Mars and ...

In his inauguration speech, he spoke of the US pursuing its “manifest destiny into the stars”. NASA, with whom SpaceX commands lucrative contracts, is set to experience a shake-up under new ...