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Elon Musk Set to Update His Plans for Colonizing Mars

2017-09-29 3 Dailymotion

Elon Musk Set to Update His Plans for Colonizing Mars<br />A few hours before Mr. Musk’s talk on Friday, Lockheed Martin provided an update of its own Mars mission vision, called Mars Base Camp.<br />It would not head to Mars until 2028, it would take only six astronauts and the first trip would not even land on Mars<br />but instead circle the red planet for a year before returning to Earth.<br />Lockheed Martin officials said that their plans would fit within the NASA budget,<br />building on the agency’s plans to put a space station high above the moon.<br />Major improvements & some unexpected applications to be unveiled on Friday at @IAC2017 in Australia<br />Mr. Musk has long talked about his dreams of colonizing Mars,<br />and at the same conference last year, he finally provided engineering details — a humongous reusable rocket called the Interplanetary Transport System carrying 100 passengers — and offered an overly optimistic timeline.

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