SpaceX President: "Mankind Will Reach Mars Before the End of the Decade"

By 2030 will we reach Mars?

The SpaceX president has promised that humanity will land astronauts on Mars by the end of the current decade

Niv Lillian

10/05/2022

Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 07:12 Updated: 07:23

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The city's vision for Mars (Photo: SpaceX)

Is humanity close to Mars?

According to SpaceX (Elon Musk Space Company) Gwen Shotwell, this will happen before the end of the decade - and astronauts will land on our red neighbor's land.

"I think it's going to be this decade, yeah. People on the moon before."

Shotwell said in her brief interview with CNBC.

"I think we need to fly a large shipment to Mars, and then people will start thinking about it seriously. Then in five or six years, humanity will see Mars as a destination and a real place to go," said the president and CEO of SpaceX.

Originally, when Musk founded SpaceX, he set it up for this purpose - to bring humanity to Mars.

His original plan talked about reaching Mars in seven years and that was in 2017, so the original target was for another two years, to 2024, now - Shotwell is slightly updating Musk's original schedule ...

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Will we reach Mars at the end of the decade? (Photo: AP)

In order to achieve the lofty goal of reaching Mars, SpaceX has developed a special spacecraft designed for a long journey in space, which has been named Starship.

Starship, is actually a space system that includes a reusable rocket and a cabin to take people to the moon, Mars and beyond.

At the same time, NASA is developing its own similar system, called Artemis, which we also wrote about here. Artemis' original purpose is to reach the moon, but NASA certainly sees Artemis as the spacecraft that will also take humans to Mars, similar to SpaceX's starship, when the moon is supposed to serve as a station Intermediate and "gas station" for spacecraft on their way to Mars.

However, NASA's schedule is a little more modest and speaks of a possible landing on Mars only in 2040, that is, another 18 years

. From the company's plant in South Texas.The launch but is conditional on a delayed environmental impact survey, which is due to be delivered at the end of the month.

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