Riding To Mars In 2 Years: Care To Join ? SpaceX Dares The Unusual In Multiplanetary Experience
The Oasis Reporters
September 23, 2024
By Engr. Elon Musk
SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years.
If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years.
It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars every two years, when the planets are aligned. This increases the difficulty of the task, but also serves to immunize Mars from many catastrophic events on Earth.
No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase the number of spaceships traveling to Mars exponentially with every transit opportunity.
We want to enable anyone who wants to be a space traveler to go to Mars!
That means you or your family or friends – anyone who dreams of great adventure.
Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will be a glorious sight to see!
Can you imagine?
Wow.
The fundamental existential question is whether humanity becomes sustainably multiplanetary before something happens on Earth to prevent that, for example nuclear war, a supervirus or population collapse that weakens civilization to the point where it loses the ability to send supply ships to Mars.
Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX and a phenomenal engineer himself who was born in South Africa, but now an American citizen. He is also the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter and Starlink as well as Tesla, the electric car manufacturers.