Elon Musk plans to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050
The estimated cost of a single launch would be just $2 million
An illustration of SpaceX's planned Starship rockets on launchpads of a city on Mars. PHOTO: Twitter
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company’s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for SpaceX’s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars.
Elon Musk revealed on Twitter that he plans to send a million people to the Red Planet in the next three decades.
Musk detailed that SpaceX will send three Starship flights daily - or around 1,000 a year.
Starship is designed to send more than 100 tons which equal seven fully loaded school buses’ worth of mass and 100 people to the orbit at the same time.
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Musk didn’t mention the exact details about what the rockets would need to carry to Mars but an ample amount of food, water, building materials, tools, and advanced life-support system are equipped in the Starship.
Elon Musk revealed on Twitter that he plans to send a million people to the Red Planet in the next three decades.
Musk detailed that SpaceX will send three Starship flights daily - or around 1,000 a year.
Starship is designed to send more than 100 tons which equal seven fully loaded school buses’ worth of mass and 100 people to the orbit at the same time.
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Musk didn’t mention the exact details about what the rockets would need to carry to Mars but an ample amount of food, water, building materials, tools, and advanced life-support system are equipped in the Starship.
Megatons per year to orbit are needed for life to become multiplanetary
Loading the Mars fleet into Earth orbit, then 1000 ships depart over ~30 days every 26 months. Battlestar Galactica …
Musk’s 1,000 Starships could transport about 100 megatons of stuff to Mars; with each ship taking about 100 passengers making a total of 100,000 people migrating to the red planet per year.
The launch of the Starship prototype is rumored to be scheduled for the end of March.
Flight is hopefully 2 to 3 months away
The estimated cost of a single launch would be just $2 million which is relatively cheaper than the current cost of launching a similar number of people and cargo into space.
There are many regulatory hurdles that need to be surpassed before the official launch.
The story was originally published on Business Insider.