Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air Force Missions

[USFdon]

Spacex goal is to get to Mars, they are going to need to make money to achieve there goals. they did not start this to launch satillites.

Idealism and moving technology forward is great and all... but they most certainly got into the business to launch satellites. That's where the market is now and will be for the foreseeable future.

[M_Puckett]

For them, it is a means to an end, not the end in and of itself.