Boeing decided to defeat SpaceX in the race to bring people to Mars

Boeing's CEO revealed his ambition to build rockets to send people to Mars first, surpassing billionaire Elon Musk's rival SpaceX.

Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing's executive chairman, shared his plan to become the first aerospace carrier to send people to Mars, beating its rival SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk, according to Bloomberg."I'm sure the first person to set foot on Mars will travel with Boeing's missiles , " Muilenburg said at a conference on technological progress taking place in Chicago, USA, on October 4.

The missile SLS (left), developed by Boeing and NASA and SpaceX's Falcon missile.(Photo: Boeing / NASA / SpaceX).

During the seminar, Muilenburg revealed that it will focus on the space travel market with dozens of destinations on Earth orbit and transcontinental passenger supersonic aircraft in less than two hours. Similar to SpaceX, Boeing wants to promote commercialization of space tourism in the space near the Earth, while developing technology to reach farther away than the Moon.

The Chicago-based aerospace group is partnering with the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) to develop a heavy rocket called Space Launch System for expeditions to remote locations. Boeing used to build the first floor of the Saturn V, America's most powerful rocket ever, helping to lift people to the Moon. Boeing and SpaceX are also the first private companies chosen by NASA to bring astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Currently, Muilenburg assesses space tourism will explode in the next two decades and become a commercially viable market. The ISS station can be combined with many low-orbit Earth hotels and companies specialized in manufacturing and research in micro-weight environments.

According to Muilenburg, Boeing will produce spacecraft for the new tourism era. He also appreciated the potential of supersonic aircraft, which could travel at three times the speed of sound. Muilenburg argues that space travel costs will be significantly reduced before test spacecraft can be considered for commercial use.