Elon Musk has plans to build the Mars Colonial Transporter is a giant colonial space ship that can take 100 or 100 metric tons of cargo to Mars. This cargo vessel is an integral part of SpaceX’s plan for the mankind to other planets. To start on Mars. But why stop at Mars? The head of the company SpaceX announced that this hypothetical ship can theoretically go beyond Mars.
But I can find people outside of Mars?
It is worth saying that we still do not know much about “interplanetary transportation system” or about how far you may climb it. But we can discuss where Musk can send your colonial goods.
In addition to Mars, in the Solar system there are several other places that would be suitable for human life — well, or at least be a little less deadly than others.
In the upper layers of Venus, for example, it is pleasant weather to make a human settlement. In the city above the clouds was awesome.
Saturn’s moon Titan has a nitrogen atmosphere and atmospheric pressure on the surface similar to earth’s. The satellite is also quite possible it was something to found. Under the surface of Titan might be water and ammonia rain from the sky will help keep the base camp clean. Just won’t light a match near the lakes of liquid methane.
Other destinations, like our moon and Jupiter’s moon Callisto, can be rich in water ice. This is important not only to provide drinking water to any settler, but also because it can be split into hydrogen and oxygen. Oxygen, of course, pleasant for breathing. Of hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel, so any colony on such water worlds could become refueling stations for exploration of the Solar system.
What could beat Mars?
Elon musk is a man with big ambitions. After he (probably) will send the first humans to Mars, but before going there himself, he probably wants to throw us a couple of cottages. Come to mind two possible options that could change your whole Outlook of mankind on the Universe.
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It will definitely be difficult, considering that the satellite of Jupiter that can hold life, covered with a thick icy crust thickness of 100 km. Bust through the ice will be a real feat for a robot. But Musk may want to send a team of drillers. Still, the question “is there life on Europa?” is very interesting.
Constantly bombarded harmful radiation Europe will not be a hospitable place for humans, but the discovery of another life on another world may be the most important event in the history of mankind.
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Interstellar travel is almost certainly impossible even for such a spacecraft like the Mars Colonial Transporter. But since we’re talking about a hypothetical destinations for a hypothetical transport links, this option should not be discounted.
Latest news says that SpaceX plans to launch interplanetary Transporter in 2022 and in 2024 will send him to Mars with passengers. These timelines are too ambitious and definitely stretch. At the end of this month, Musk will reveal SpaceX plans for Mars, then, and find out everything for sure.
