the Entrepreneur and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to send the first humans to Mars – already in the year 2024.
There, he revealed at the international astronautkongressen in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday night, the night of Wednesday american time.
Elon Musk, the engineer and entrepreneur behind companies Paypal, Tesla and rymdsatsningen SpaceX, has already said that he wants to send the first unmanned spacecraft to Mars before 2018.
Want to make us interplanetary
During a speech at the international astronautkongressen on Tuesday, he presented his rymdsatsning Interplanetary Transportation Systems, ITP, which has hitherto gone under the name of Mars Colonial Transport, reports the more the american media. The rocket is described as the most powerful ever built, with a spaceship designed to be able to transport at least 100 people at a time to the red planet.
Musk has a vision of making the person a "interplanetarisk art" is in itself no novelty, but on Tuesday, he introduced several technical pieces and the issues of safety and cost of the project, writes CNN.
Advanced 2025
Elon Musk hopes to send the first humans to Mars already in 2024, with the arrival the following year. According to CNN his goal is to bring down the price of a Mars-ticket to around 200 000 dollars per person, the equivalent of just over 1.7 million Swedish krona.
If all goes according to plan, a self-sustaining colony could be established on Mars within the next 50 to 100 years, ” said Elon Musk on astronautkongressen.
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