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A SpaceX, US space transport company Elon Musk, the real-life Tony Stark, owner of Tesla, which makes the best electric cars today, has announced that it intends to send a mission to mars already in 2018 according to a tweet in the company profile.
She intends to send a capsule Dragon V2, unmanned, on a Falcon 9 rocket, both from SpaceX to Mars. The mission will be uncrewed, will have the technical of NASA and will bring a lot of scientific payload to the planet.
About the space capsule, Musk said on his Twitter that "Dragon 2 is designed to land anywhere in the Solar System"And “I would not recommend transporting astronauts beyond the Earth and Moon region. It wouldn't be nice for longer journeys. The internal volume [of the capsule] is approximately that of an SUV.”
Musk and the former astronaut Buzz Aldrin already defend the colonization of Mars for a long time, and the businessman was already talking about sending a spaceship to the red planet, however this is the first time he gave us a certain date to happen.
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The first orbital test of the Dragon V2 is already scheduled for 2017 and SpaceX has a short time to work on the mission, but we are all rooting for it to work. andand according to Carlos Cardoso, from half-bit, the most obvious date for the mission to take place would be 30/4/2018, because every 26 months, a new transfer window to mars, where Earth and Mars line up close together and you get to Mars with less time and energy.
It is incredible to think that a private company intends to send a mission to Mars with its own resources, while entire countries fail to have a decent space program, fail to launch rockets, or even send a satellite into space. (if you haven't noticed, I'm talking about Brazil).
As much as SpaceX failed tests with its rockets, and Amazon's Jef Bezos have had success with your, let's wait for the next chapters of this XNUMXst century space race.
