Humans will be living and working in space by the early 2030s, predicts Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor.
“We’ll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” Taylor tells Fortune magazine. “You’ll be able to look up at the moon and see lights on the moon.”
Taylor, a serial entrepreneur and billionaire, agrees with Elon Musk that colonization of Mars would be worthwhile as a backup to preserve the human species in the event of a disaster on Earth, and that the Moon, would not provide species-saving diversification. However, he also said that few people are adventurous enough to make the voyage.
“This whole notion that we can create an entire civilization, terraform ours, it’s going to take a long time to do that,” he told Fortune.
Taylor said he would like to make the trip to Mars. But his focus is on the Moon, which is part of the “same planetary system” as the Earth.
Indeed, Denver-based Voyager Technologies is focused on business opportunities in near-space. The company makes orbital propulsion systems and advanced spacecraft electronics, and it provides space mission-management services. The company owns the Bishop Airlock on the International Space Station, the station’s first commercial module, and it is part of Starlab, a next-generation commercial space station.
P.S. I, for one, look forward to the day when the Moon is more lit up than North Korea.