Nuke Mars? Elon Musk seems serious about plan to terraform the red planet. - NBCNewsMACH
; he has stressed repeatedly that he started SpaceX in 2002 primarily with this long-term goal in mind. And the company is now developing a spaceflight system to make it all happen: a 100-passenger spacecraft called Starship and a huge rocket called Super Heavy.
The reusable duo could start operational launches as early as 2021 and begin flying people by 2023, SpaceX representatives have said. If everything goes well, crewed Mars missions could lift off sometime in the 2020s. Musk's terraforming thoughts may have evolved by then. Actually, they may shift dramatically in the next few days, if another one of yesterday's tweets is any guide.
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