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Elon Musk reveals when SpaceX will send people to Mars for the first time

2020-12-04T15:06:50.880Z


Elon Musk is known as a visionary. At an event in Berlin, the head of Tesla and SpaceX now gives an insight into the schedules of his Mars project.


Elon Musk is known as a visionary.

At an event in Berlin, the head of Tesla and SpaceX now gives an insight into the schedules of his Mars project.

  • Elon Musk

    is the head of

    Tesla

    and

    SpaceX

    and a real visionary - even if he usually doesn't keep his deadlines.

  • Now Musk has explained when

    SpaceX

    will transport

    humans to

    Mars

    for the first time

    .

  • News from space research, astronomy and space travel.

Elon Musk

is known as a visionary.

The head of the electric car manufacturer

Tesla

and the space company

SpaceX

*

has one goal above all:

Mars

*.

Musk's long-term plan is to make humanity “multiplanetar”.

He wants to colonize Mars and spread life to other planets - which is also the background to the establishment of

SpaceX

.

With his rockets - above all the "Starship" *, which is currently under development, people and material are to be used to colonize

Mars

in the future

to be brought.

At the award ceremony in Berlin,

Elon Musk

now gave an insight into his timing: “In six years we will be able to bring people to Mars.

If we're a little lucky, it might even work in four years, ”says the“ Business Insider ”Musk.

In two years' time, the

SpaceX

boss

wants to

"send an unmanned vehicle to Mars", added Musk.

Biggest unanswered question in the space industry in the next decade is what the hell to do with this capability.

It's utterly transformative.

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- Peter Hague (@peterrhague) November 17, 2020

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is not known for meeting deadlines

However,

Elon Musk is

not exactly known for meeting the deadlines he set himself.

In 20216, Musk declared that

SpaceX

wants to send

people to

Mars

for the first time in 2024

, the first unmanned flight to Mars should take place according to plans at the time in 2018.

Elon Musk also

wanted the first paying tourists to

fly around the moon in 2018.

The year 2020 is almost over and no

SpaceX

spaceship has

yet

flown

to

Mars

or even to the

moon

.

But

Elon Musk

is also a person who does not give up his plans so easily:

At the beginning he was laughed at

for his idea of

reusing

rockets

- meanwhile

SpaceX

is

doing well

with the partially reusable

rocket "Falcon 9"

and is also sending its own

“Starlink” satellites

* also satellites from commercial customers into

space

.

Elon Musk is sticking to SpaceX plans - even if it takes longer

The Astronaut: interior occupied

space capsule "Crew Dragon"

is from the "Falcon 9" rocket into

space

transports.

Your destination: the

ISS

*.

The "Crew Dragon" capsules were developed on behalf of the

US space organization Nasa

and

SpaceX was

years behind schedule

for this project too

- but delivered in 2020 *: Already two flights with astronauts:

SpaceX

has completed two flights

this year - and more are to follow.

Mars is

a major concern of

Elon Musk

, as his other statements at the event in Berlin showed: When asked whether the

Mars

project is good business or rather Plan B for mankind, should the earth ever become uninhabitable, answered

According to “Business Insider”,

the

SpaceX

boss is comparatively emotional: “We want to have a future that is exciting and inspiring.

It is important to find joy in what you are working towards.

It can't just be about getting out of bed in the morning to solve problems. ”He himself would like to be

buried

on

Mars

, he added and joked:“ Just not on impact. ”(Tanja Banner)

* fr. de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital central editorial team.

Source: merkur

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