Boeing CEO pledges to ferry first astronauts to Mars

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has sought to bring upstart rival SpaceX back down to Earth by insisting that the aerospace juggernaut would develop the first rocket capable of transporting astronauts to Mars.
The intervention is a clear rebuke to increasingly audacious claims made by SpaceX founder Elon Musk who aims to establish a human colony on the Red Planet by 2024.
Speaking at the ‘What’s Next’ tech conference in Chicago Muilenburg said: “I’m convinced that the