当马斯克意识到,现在没有任何有关火星任务的书籍时,他估计美国人对太空探索已经失去了兴趣。两年后,公众对“哥伦比亚”号航天飞机失事的反应,从另一个方面更加坚定了他的看法。“这条新闻出现在当时的每一份报纸、每一本杂志、每一个新闻站点,甚至是那些与太空毫不沾边的新闻媒体上。”他告诉我,“是的,‘哥伦比亚’号航天飞机失事造成了7人死亡,这是很可怕的。而7个人同时罹难,竟然没有人,花哪怕是一点儿的心思去 When Musk realizes that there is no book on the Mars mission right now, he estimates that Americans have lost interest in space exploration. Two years later, the public’s response to the ”Columbia“ space shuttle crashed his opinion on the other. ”This news appeared in every newspaper of that time, every magazine, every news site, even those non-detached news media with space. “ He told me, ”Yes, ’Colombia ’S space shuttle crash caused 7 deaths, which is terrible .At the same time the seven individuals were killed, no one, even if it is a little thought to go