musk is serious about getting to mars. at the heart of the plan are the reusable rockets being developed by spacex. at present, spacex has successfully launched six rockets to orbit and re-landed them on earth . the falcon 9 rockets have carried payloads into orbit (before they are sent...
When Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” the first settlers on the Red Planet will die there, at an August 31 conference, the outcome was easy to imagine. It is a dangerous place, after all. But that obscures the ultimate goal of any colony: to have people comfortably die o...
skip to main content elon musk's mars colonization plan now includes intercity rocket travel musk today updated his grand plan to save humanity by moving it to mars. elon musk speaks below a computer generated illustration of his new rocket. peter parks/afp/getty save save elon musk still ...
A Step Closer to Mars Colonization Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, is a key component of Musk’s long-term vision to establish a human colony on Mars. SpaceX has been actively developing and testing the rocket system, despite multiple setbacks in its test flights...
Elon Musk thinks that it would take between 40 and 100 years for humanity to go from landing a ship full of colonists on Mars to establishing a self-sustaining civilization. At his company SpaceX’s event today, Musk laid out how a fleet of ships that could carry ...
Elon Musk revealed a new plan to colonize Mars with giant reusable spaceships — here are the highlightsDave Mosher
It’s just colonization. Elon Musk plans to get to Mars first, and that means he can quickly establish a fiefdom where he makes his own rules by a first-come, first-serve system. Instead, the outer space treaties establish clear rules about weapons and natural resources to try to preser...
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The journey starts getting real in September, when Musk is due to lay out his detailed Mars colonization plan at theInternational Astronautical Congressin Mexico. “This is going to be mind-blowing,” he said. “Mind-blowing. It’s going to be really great.” (Sounds like Elon is channelin...
Musk’s use of the word “colonization” also belies a long history of Americans and other Western nations enriching themselves by exploiting and enslaving others. And when it comes to colonizing another planet, it’s not just the microbial lifeforms that may exist on Mars that should be conce...