musk announces mars plan: the first starship to mars will be launched in 2 years
2024-09-08
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on september 8, musk posted on social media, announcing the mars plan: the first starship to mars will be launched in two years to test the reliability of a complete landing on mars. if the landing is successful, the first manned mission to mars will take place in four years.
after the first manned landing on mars, the flight rate of the starship will increase exponentially, with the goal of building a self-sufficient city on mars in about 20 years.
if achieved, it would be the beginning of an interstellar civilization.
musk believes that spacex has successfully developed fully reusable rockets and made reuse economically feasible, which has laid a solid foundation for the mars immigration plan.
what is the biggest challenge in migrating to mars?
musk said that the most critical issue in sending humans to mars is to reduce the cost per ton of payload.
right now, it costs about $1 billion to send a ton of payload to the surface of mars! in order to build a self-sustaining city on mars, this cost would need to be reduced to $100,000/ton, which means improving the technology 10,000 times!
it sounds like fantasy, but musk says it's not impossible.
mars immigration plan timeline:
2 years later: the first batch of starship unmanned spacecraft will land on mars to test the feasibility of a safe landing.
4 years later: if the unmanned spacecraft lands successfully, the first manned spacecraft will set off for mars. this is a critical node because from then on, the launch rate of interstellar spacecraft will increase exponentially.
in 20 years: musk's goal is to build a self-sustaining city on mars.
why migrate to mars? musk believes that becoming a multi-planet species will greatly increase the probability of survival of human consciousness because we no longer put all our consciousness eggs in the same basket.
