Musk’s Grand Plan: To Save Humanity … By Inheriting The Solar System!

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Many years ago, I had a genius colleague and friend ... his name was Krafft Ehricke.

Krafft was a key member of Wernher von Braun's infamous "Peenemunde Rocket Group" -- the German scientists and engineers that the US Government brought to New Mexico at the end of World War II, to develop US military rockets under a code name -- "Operation Paperclip."

Pursuing a completely (and MUCH more difficult) separate engineering path, Ehricke, decades after Paperclip, "invented" the first successful hydrogen-based rocket engine -- which, unlike the alcohol and kerosene-fueled motors of the von Braun group, was much more efficient, making practical both manned and unmanned NASA missions to the Moon, to Jupiter and Saturn ... and beyond. 

But all the while, Ehricke (like von Braun) continued to dream of human colonization of outer space, ultimately ... of the entire solar system!

Ehricke called his expansive vision "The Extraterrestrial Imperative."  And the discovery and utilization of its almost infinite natural resources, for the benefit of Earth and its stay-at-home inhabitants ... Humanity's "Magnificent Heritage."

Now, Elon Musk -- another foreign immigrant -- is developing the technology to finally fulfill Ehrick's grand plan ....

With my guest tonight, Dr. Douglas Plata, we will explore the realities and implications of Musk's own self-proclaimed "Grand Vision": to make Humanity a "multi-planet species" ... with an appropriate homage to my long-departed friend and pioneer -- Krafft Ehricke. 
Richard C. Hoagland