Elon Musk updates his Mars schedule. The SpaceX boss said on Sunday, September 8, that the first spaceships will leave for Mars in two years, when the distance between Earth and Mars is short enough. “These missions will be unmanned in order to test the reliability of a successful landing on Mars,” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1832550322293837833 on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The American company has been testing Starship, the device designed to operate trips to the Moon and Mars, for several months now. Last June, it managed to land in the Indian Ocean for the first time, while the three previous tests had ended in explosions.
The American billionaire also specified that if his ships manage to land correctly on the red planet, then the first manned flights could begin “in four years”. “The number of flights will then increase exponentially, with the aim of building an autonomous city within twenty years,” he added. This is Elon Musk’s dream: to build a human colony on Mars. He never ceases to repeat that it is urgent to make life multiplanetary. “We must do it while civilization is strong,” he declared last April during a presentation at the SpaceX launch center in Texas. Moreover, according to information from « New York Times »Elon Musk has reportedly already offered his sperm for this purpose. A piece of inform…
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