Elon Musk promises 'fun' trip to Mars colony
September 28, 2016 03:05
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today unveiled his plans for establishing a human colony on Mars, using a massive rocket and a fleet of spaceships to achieve a self-sustaining population on the Red Planet this century.
Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, Musk showed a futuristic video depicting his ideas for an interplanetary transport system based on re-usable rockets, a propellant farm on Mars and 1,000 spaceships on orbit, carrying about 100 people each.
The spacecraft would have a restaurant, cabins, zero-gravity games and movies.
"It has to be fun or exciting. It can't feel cramped or boring," he said.
The first flight would be expensive but the aim is 'making this affordable to almost anyone who wants to go,' by dropping the price of a ticket over time to $100,000, Musk said.
Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, Musk showed a futuristic video depicting his ideas for an interplanetary transport system based on re-usable rockets, a propellant farm on Mars and 1,000 spaceships on orbit, carrying about 100 people each.
The spacecraft would have a restaurant, cabins, zero-gravity games and movies.
"It has to be fun or exciting. It can't feel cramped or boring," he said.
The first flight would be expensive but the aim is 'making this affordable to almost anyone who wants to go,' by dropping the price of a ticket over time to $100,000, Musk said.
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