Off-Earth travel has been a hot topic, especially during this year 2021, with the “Space Race” run by billionaires. This one, which was made just to get to the minimum level off Earth, can expand — even too much. In a recent interview with a podcast program, Elon Musk said we will take humans to Mars five to ten years from now. 613o1r
through the program lex fridman, a podcast that aired this past Tuesday, December 28, the current CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that man's journey to Mars is getting closer every day. The forecast is that the trip will take place in five years, with the worst-case scenario being able to drag on for up to ten years. In this way, we can expect the feat to happen until 2031.
Among the biggest challenges for this human trip to Mars to actually take place is precisely the engineering of the vehicle that will be used, as it also involves a large financial investment. Musk says that currently, there is no money to pay for a trip to Mars.
A starship is the most complex and advanced rocket ever made. The fundamental optimization of starship is to minimize the cost per ton for orbiting and ultimately cost per ton for the surface of Mars. No amount of money can guarantee a ticket to Mars.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX in an interview with the Lex Fridman podcast
Specialists say that this prediction will only be able to come true if all the plans for the feat are followed closely, otherwise we won't see any missions to Mars anytime soon. One of the key factors for this is the travel opportunities scheduled for before 2026. Elon Musk still claims, in very distant plans, that if we manage to reach Mars, there will still be the construction of a thousand spacecraft to send at least three of them, daily. , to Mars, with the intention of putting at least a million of people on the Red Planet.
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