马斯克要先于波音实现载人登陆火星

上周四，波音（Boeing）首席执行官丹尼斯·米伦伯格宣布公司致力于成为载人登陆火星伟大计划的先驱。“人类最终将登上火星，我坚信，登陆火星的第一个人乘坐的是波音火箭，”米伦伯格今晨对CNBC主持人吉姆·克莱姆说道。随后，特斯拉（Tesla）和SpaceX公司首席执行官埃隆·马斯克发布了一条推特，下了战书。

马斯克在看到“财富科技（Fortune Tech）”账号发布的一条可链接到《财富》关于米伦伯格大胆预言的新闻报道的推特后，言简意赅地回应道，“去干吧”。

这并非是米伦伯格首次作出这种预言。去年的一次技术大会上，他表达了相似的观点。然而，马斯克更是雄心勃勃，不仅放话要登陆火星，还要开拓这一星球。对于公众而言，一提起火星探索，脑海里就会浮现这位名闻四方的亿万富翁的大名。十月，马斯克制定了关于登陆火星的SpaceX 战略计划，设定了要将大批人口安置在这一星球的目标，这是他致力于将人类转化为“多星球物种”的愿景的一部分。

马斯克认为旗下的SpaceX 最快2022年可以将宇宙飞船送上火星。而米伦伯格周四宣布波音的下一代火箭的测试计划将于2019年展开。

马斯克在推特上十分活跃，以热衷在特斯拉客户和评论家之间插话而出名。去年，这位亿万富翁甚至与《财富》在推特上起了点小口角（包括屏蔽《财富》的推特主账号），原因是《财富》报道特斯拉出现夺命车祸以及马斯克随后出售特斯拉股票套现一事。（财富中文网）

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted a challenge on Twitter after Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said on Thursday that his aerospace giant would transport the first humans to Mars. “Eventually we’re going to go Mars and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket,” Muilenburg told CNBC’s Jim Cramer this morning.

In response to a tweet from the “Fortune Tech” Twitter account linking to Fortune’s news article about Muilenburg’s bold bet, Musk simply wrote, “Do it.”

Muilenburg has made the same proclamation in the past, including last year at a tech conference. However, Musk’s own very public ambitions to not only reach Mars, but to colonize the Red Planet, seem to have linked the celebrity billionaire’s name with the idea of Mars exploration in the public imagination. In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a “multiplanetary species.”

Musk believes that SpaceX could begin landing spaceships on Mars as soon as 2022, while Muilenburg said on Thursday’s that Boeing’s own next generation rockets would be tested starting in 2019.

Musk is an active Twitter user who is known to jump into the Twitter conversations among Tesla customers and critics. Last year, the billionaire even engaged in a brief Twitter spat with Fortune (including blocking Fortune‘s primary Twitter account) over its reporting in the wake of a Tesla driver’s fatal crash and Musk’s post-crash sale of Tesla shares in a public offering.