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The man who almost single-handedly made the environmentally-conscious electric vehicle sexy with the Tesla, is now hoping to do the same for space flight, but with a twist, reusable launch vehicles.
While NASA has recently drifted away its bold expeditions of the past and China ramps up its efforts to build a space station, Elon Musk's SpaceX has revealed its designs for what would be truly reusable launch vehicles for space travel. The reusable vehicle will be based on SpaceX's Falcon 9 craft which, at roughly $60 million for launch and construction, is still the cheapest solution on the market.