Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has never hidden his ambition to bring his spacecraft to Mars. Recently, in particular the unveiling of the Dragon V2 spacecraft, brought him back to the spotlight with new statements and interviews in which he talks a bit about his plans.

In the past, Elon Musk stated that he opened SpaceX with the ultimate goal of developing the technologies needed to bring people to Mars. For him it’s not just a scientific mission aiming to carry astronauts to the red planet to study it in person but to found a colony.

Last Monday, Boeing held a press conference to show a mock-up of its CST-100 spacecraft. The company did it in Cape Canaveral, in an area of the Kennedy Space Center that was once used in the Space Shuttle program and in recent years was abandoned. In the last months, Boeing refurbished the area with the idea of ​​using it for the management of the CST-100 spacecraft space missions to conduct together with NASA.

Yesterday, Elon Musk, the owner of SpaceX, unveiled to the world the Dragon V2 spacecraft. This is the version of Dragon built to carry people into space and bring them back to Earth. It can carry up to seven people and includes innovative solutions while keeping the focus on reliability and safety.

A few hours ago the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ended its CRS-3 (Cargo Resupply Service 3) mission on behalf of NASA smoothly splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California a few hours after leaving the International Space Station. Shortly after, the Dragon was recovered by SpaceX boats that will carry it to the coast. The cargo brought back to Earth will be delivered to NASA in the following hours. The Dragon spacecraft reached the International Space Station on April 18, 2014 .