After twenty seconds of thinking in a recent two-and-a-half-hour space interview, Elon Musk has given his verdict on how much longer it will take humanity to set foot on Mars, writes the American magazine Futurism.
"At worst, ten years," said Tesla and SpaceX CEO Podcast Presenter Lex Friedman. "We have to be a multiplanetary species."
Musk said Starship, SpaceX's reusable rocket, was the most sophisticated rocket ever built and expected to send humans to Mars safely.
However, it is worth noting that Musk has a habit of promising and not fulfilling, the publication notes. This week alone, its electric vehicle maker Tesla withdrew nearly half a million cars.
However, SpaceX has achieved things that the suspects said were impossible. He now regularly sends astronauts to and from the International Space Station. And Starship has already struck a lucrative deal with NASA to deliver astronauts to the moon's agency and left Earth several times - though it has not yet reached orbit to be honest, and most flights have ended in spectacular explosions.
However, Musk clarified that he was not talking about colonizing Mars in ten years, but about a landing or exploration mission. He said cutting costs and reusing parts is the key to success in both, and that while you can't buy a ticket to Mars for $ 1 trillion right now, dropping every significant part of the rocket dramatically increases costs.
"In theory, Starship could cost $ 1 million to launch, maybe $ 2 million," Musk said in an interview. "And I'm putting more than 100 tons into orbit, which is crazy. No new physics required.
"Possible? Yes. Probably? Ah, the jury is still out. But if Starship continues to achieve benchmarks and earn sweet money from NASA, sooner or later one can really step on Mars, "the publication commented.
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