This is what it will take to get to Mars

The trip to Mars is one of Musk's main concerns.

Elon Musk has always made clear in his statements the desire he has To travel to Mars. Not just because it listed SpaceX as a company, but long before it listed the company and tried to make Starship work with disastrous consequences. Thus, this pole has always believed that humanity's solution is to colonize nearby planets, starting with Mars, which has the most benign characteristics of all around us.

Now, he has clearly detailed it What will it take to travel to Mars? Practically and establish a permanent base in place. The truth is His plan is ambitious It proposes an unparalleled deployment of means.

The journey to Mars

Elon Musk's obsession with Mars dates back to the 1990s, but one of the key points was his involvement in the project Mars oasis In which he dreamed up the idea of ​​creating a small gardening system on Mars, like a greenhouse. This plan, introduced more than twenty years ago on this day This came before I decided to found SpaceX. However, it was always the company's plan Getting to Mars And to be the first private company to achieve truly ambitious goals in space.

Four years ago, Musk received a pointed question about what was formerly known as Twitter. And there they asked him What would it take for humans to reach Mars?. The truth is that Musk's response was as ambitious as it was succinct: “A thousand missiles Starship “It will be necessary to create a sustainable city on Mars.”.

The response left no doubt about the huge amount of media that It will be necessary to establish and manage the first Martian colony. But it is clear that for such a Cyclopean plan it is necessary to have appropriate means. Another debate will be about whether It is sustainable to maintain a number of launches For which to achieve its realization it will be necessary to invest Ten years of continuous releases.

A thousand ships would be needed to create a sustainable Martian city

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2019

• Elon Musk's life goal has always been to travel to Mars.
• For this reason, they have now placed a “Gateway to Mars” sign at SpaceX headquarters.
• Musk has always wanted to travel to Mars for many decades, and we have to go back to the 1990s to see his first statements on the subject.
• In the early 2000s, Musk implemented a project to Take a mini greenhouse to Mars.
• Four years ago he was asked on Twitter about the possibilities of going to Mars and he replied yes 1,000 spacecraft will be needed for this.
• This translates to approx Ten years of releases.

As usual, Elon Musk was incredibly optimistic when it came to showing his intentions. To start with because He has not yet been able to put the Starship rocket into orbit Without exploding later or causing a large number of casualties. It is not strange for him to give Very optimistic dates And later you have to undo it because Their engineers struggle to reach them. The same thing happened with Cybertruckwhich is close to hitting the mass market with about a three-year delay from its original estimated release date.

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