SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented his plan to transport people to Earth in unprecedented times.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Friday unveiled his ambitious plans to send spaceships to Mars in five years and get people to Earth in record time. The founder of the private space operator was speaking at a world astronautics congress that brought together 4,000 experts until Friday in Adelaide, Australia.
SpaceX has already started work on this interplanetary transport system project to which it codenamed “Big fucking rocket”, he explained. Construction of the first ship is due to begin in six or nine months. “I’m pretty confident that we can complete the ship and launch it in about five years,” he said. The goal is that at least two cargo craft can land on Mars in 2022, with the main mission of finding the best possible water source. These ships would carry sufficient infrastructure to ensure survival on Mars, before people are transported there in 2024.
This project would be financed in particular by the launch of satellites and services to space stations and missions on the Moon, he assured.
No turbulence once out of the atmosphere
BFR’s ships would also serve residents on Earth by reducing travel times between major cities to less than half an hour, he predicted. A Bangkok-Dubai would take 27 minutes while Tokyo would be 30 minutes away from New Delhi. “Once out of the atmosphere, it would roll on its own, without turbulence, nothing. There is no weather and you can reach long distance destinations in less than half an hour. If we build this thing for go to the Moon or Mars, why not go to other places on Earth as well ”.
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Reaching and Colonizing Mars is seen by private and public entrepreneurs as the next major step in space exploration and has emerged as a major theme at the Adelaide Congress.
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