NEW YORK - Elon Musk raised. And the tip about Mars: “let’s conquer the red Planet in the next ten years”. The american entrepreneur of south african origin, you are not left discouraged by the recent failure of his company space SpaceX a few weeks ago, he literally blew the rocket Falcon9 at Cape Canaveral. Instead it has launched a new challenge which, at this point, it is not only the ambition of a billionaire, but begins to assume the contours of a concrete project. During an international conference dedicated to the conquest of space that is taking place in Mexico, Musk has unveiled his plan in more detail. The colonization of Mars would begin with the launch in the space of spaceships in carbon fiber. For this operation, you will need flares with twice the power of the Saturn 5, the vector of Nasa that took the first astronauts on the Moon. The tanks of these rockets, once fallen on the Earth, would you re-use: filled with fuel and launched it back into space to resupply the ships that at this point they could start their journey towards the red Planet, carrying from 100 to 200 crew members each. “The goal in the long term,” said Musk in front of audience mexican “is to create a real city of mars”. But for this to happen, he continued, it is necessary to lower the cost of the flights to space, has continued the magnate, until a “ticket” to Mars will not get to the digits, which today in the usa, you can buy an apartment. Musk has admitted that his first mission will be very dangerous” and that “the first tourists must be ready to die.” in the Meantime the entrepreneur has allocated 10 billion dollars to develop and test the technology needed to implement the project. But even Musk knows that an undertaking of this kind cannot succeed if it does not come into play the great space agencies of the national. “It will be a great public-private partnership”. However, the challenge to Nasa. Presenting his project, the man who created PayPal, Tesla and now SpaceX is know to be ready to face the adventure of the XXI century. With a real project, which has cost and time much narrower than those developed so far by the u.s. space Agency. A journey to Mars will take 115 days, but with the evolution of technology you will need – in his words – 30. To those who raise doubts on the problem of the radiation to which it may be exposed to the human body, Musk replies: “There are risks of radiation, but I do not think this is a problem and lethal. Once you are on Mars, the exposure is halved because there is a planet to protect. I do not think this is a problem”. Musk hopes to complete the work of the first spacecraft in four years to then give away to travel the suborbital.
- Topics:
- Mars
- space travel
- the red planet
- Tesla
- Starring:
- Elon Musk
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