Elon Musk has dreamt of establishing human life on Mars. But when he dreams of things, he doesn’t reflect on it whimsically. He tries to make the dream a reality.
Elon Musk found SpaceX in 2002. It is still in the process of developing its next-generation Starship Spacecraft. It hopes that one day it will be able to transport around 100 people to Mars.
Though, Elon Musk doesn’t really think that getting to Mars will be the hard part. It gives you a sense of how momentous this challenge is. In fact its the task id setting up the camp.
Elon Musk On Human To Mars Virtual Conference
According to CNBC, during a virtual ‘Humans to Mars’ meeting on Monday, he said: “Getting to Mars, I think, is not the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is building a base, building a city on Mars that is self-sustaining.”
“We’re going to build a propellant plant, an initial Mars base – Mars Base Alpha – and then get it to the point where it’s self-sustaining.”
“I want to emphasize that this is a very hard and dangerous, difficult thing, not for the faint of heart. Good chance you’ll die, it’s going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”
Musk has made the Starship SpaceX priority this year. He said big paces have been taken. Though, there is still much to do before people would be sent to Mars.
He said, “We’re making good progress. The thing that really impedes progress on Starship is the production system… A year ago there was nothing there and now we’ve got quite a lot of production capability. So we’re rapidly making more and more ships.”
“We’ve got to first make the thing work, automatically deliver satellites, and do hundreds of missions with satellites before we put people on board.”
