Elon Musk’s Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond

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Elon Musk started his career by trying to drive technological evolution forward, and he has made billions of dollars in the process. His newest undertaking is the not-so-small task of getting humans to Mars. His company, SpaceX, hopes to get people on Mars as soon as 2024.

However, building a rocket that advanced is no small feat. They estimate it will cost $10 billion. His company is still working on other projects, but this seems to be his main focus. We may very well see humans on Mars in the next decade.

Key Takeaways:

In a talk on Tuesday at the International Astronautical Congress here, Mr. Musk finally provided engineering details, optimistic timelines and a slick video.
To establish a self-sustaining Mars civilization of a million people would take 10,000 flights, with many more to ferry equipment and supplies.
The mood at the conference was almost as giddy as a rock concert or the launch of a new Apple product, with people lining up for Mr. Musk’s presentation a couple of hours in advance.

“Mr. Musk said the first flights would be “fairly expensive” but ticket prices might eventually fall to between $100,000 and $200,000 a person.”

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