Submission + - SpaceX Founder Sets Sights On Martian Colony (isciencetimes.com)
amkkhan writes: Elon Musk, founder of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, is has his eye on forming a Mars colony, and you can be part one of the first Martian explorers for only $500,000. The Mars colony would be part of a Mars settlement program, and Must envisions ferrying up to 80,000 people to the red planet as part of the first Mars colony.
The Mars settlement program would start with 10 people, who would journey on to Mars on a reusable rocket created by SpaceX powered by liquid oxygen and methane, according to Yahoo! News.
"At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big," Musk said, according to Space.com.
The Mars settlement program would start with 10 people, who would journey on to Mars on a reusable rocket created by SpaceX powered by liquid oxygen and methane, according to Yahoo! News.
"At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big," Musk said, according to Space.com.
