The company SpaceX has ambitious plans for missions to Mars.
Elon Musk wants to reduce the cost of flights there and back to Earth to $500,000, which, in his opinion, will allow to create a Martian colony. And the company has already achieved good results.
As you know, one of the stumbling blocks for the development of space flight is their price. With all the relativity of the cost of the space program (especially when compared with the revenues of the largest IT companies), the cost of which is coupled with a small yield of spaceflight pose a real problem.