The CEO of SpaceX took to Twitter to share the news of how dangerous and arduous the task continues to be.
Elon Musk shared more details about what will be needed to reach Mars and to build a sustainable city there.
The SpaceX CEO and his company have been working hard at their long term vision of setting up an actual city on the Red Planet, which could sustain life.
The timeline Musk shared via Twitter could be interpreted as an ambitious goal or an impressive one.
Elon Musk is hell-bent on colonizing Mars.
That’s the spirit with which he founded SpaceX, his rocket company, in 2002. Musk was frustrated that NASA wasn’t doing more to get people to the red planet – and concerned a backup plan for humanity wasn’t being developed (for when Earth becomes an uninhabitable wasteland).
Since then, SpaceX has developed several impressive aerospace systems: Falcon 1, SpaceX’s first orbital rocket; Grasshopper, a small self-landing test rocket; Falcon 9, a reusable orbital-class launcher; Dragona, a spaceship for cargo and soon NASA astronauts; and Falcon Heavy, a super-heavy-lift launcher.
But Mars is a cold, unforgiving, and almost airless rock located some 140 million miles (225 million kilometres) from the Sun.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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