Musk expects that by 2035, Mars will fly over 80 days.
More than a million people plan to deliver in the future on Mars to create an independent civilization. As RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, September 27, stated the founder and head of the American company SpaceX Elon Musk, representing the passing in Mexico 67th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation the plan for the development of the red planet.
According to him, the likelihood is high that in the future the Earth will be a disaster, after which life on the planet would be impossible, therefore people need to become “interplanetary species”, to build on Mars a self-sustaining colony and settle there. Musk believes that since the first flight to create on the red planet’s independent civilization would require from 40 to 100 years.
The head of SpaceX, said that his company is developing a spacecraft that will be able to take on Board about 100 passengers and 450 tons of cargo. Each Shuttle will be able to commit 12 to 15 flights in total over 10 thousand flights will transport about one million people.
Musk expects that by 2035, Mars will fly over 80 days. The original ticket will cost ten billion dollars, later, when the number of passengers will increase twice, the price drops to 200 thousand dollars.
SpaceX intends to pursue manned missions to the Red planet in the next ten years, the exact date of the first flight the head of the company was not named, but assumed it might be in 2020.
Previously, Musk said that the first test launch of the unmanned spacecraft Dragon 2, created for landing on any planet of the Solar system, is planned no later than 2018. And the first manned flight can be realized in 2020-2025.
Funded by the Mars exploration program is on the money, proceeds from commercial flights and contracts with NASA. In addition, Musk is going to invest all your personal savings and may very likely resort to the help of donators.
