Here's Elon Musk's Vision for Affordable Space Travel to Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plan for colonizing Mars Tuesday at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube:

And subscribe to Bloomberg Politics for the latest political news:


Connect with us on...

Connect with us on...

[baddiecentral]

I want to say this man is genius, but his team works just as hard.




TO

[BlinkDrive]

This show is really better than Trump show

[BarbaraCerda]

I think there must have been at least 50 folks that wanted to run onto stage and kiss him after that presentation - brilliance is sexy!

[amka]

i won't be surprised if his name will be in history book as one of the greatest man at his time

[invntiv]

This is so brilliant. Sign me up for one of those 1, 000 ships!

[manuelv]

I like Elon Musk very much! He has the same dreams like me. I love electric cars and I love the idea of travelling trough the space and building a civilication on mars.

[Brazucaroyal]

This presentation is another proof we have never gone to the moon

[chrissith]

I wish we had more of the wealthy of the world trying to make positive changes for the future instead of forcing slow progress because of higher profit margins. Thank you Elon Musk, you will fumble and sometimes fail but never lose sight of what we can achieve through innovation, imagination and hope.

[lazypanda]

October 2024 and Here we are!!!! Almost there!!!

[WhiteDervish]

What on earth I just saw. Hail Elon Musk!

[emperordoge]

Loved how the mission was launched from the same as Apollo 11, I getting my space popcorn ready for when you launch

[tdawg]

The soundtrack was the Magnum Opus there, ngl.

[pekhoed]

Interplanetary war would become a reality. Earthlings vs Martians.

[Dalisu]

Question, how are they going to refill the 1st stage on its second lift off?

[sterlingsimms]

Wouldn't it be easier to already have the Tanker in space before the shuttle even went to space that way the shuttle would just arrive to it instead of the other way around.

[Spark_Plug]

and how you make shield protection from sun radiation ?
how you can planting a plant if the soil and athmosphere not support it ?

[wefuntw]

thanks we have visionaries and actionist like him.. or else we human race stuck here for good

[davidturner]

*THE FIRST MANNED MARS MISSION MUST BE SUCCESSFUL, START TO FINISH. We will not error on the side of cheap.*

[islandpalm]

While instructing a Princeton physics class in 1969, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill asked his gifted students whether the surface of another planet is the right place for an expanding civilization. The resounding answer was "no".

At 38% gravity, Mars will throw off nitrogen and oxygen at a rate faster than humans can build it up. Those who would seek to terraform it will find centuries of failure and effort. Why live isolated in 38% gravity for the remainder of your life where commerce, tourism, and medicines from home are not readily available?

The O'Neill idea is to expand species and markets in friendly 1-g earth-like environments at the earth-moon Lagrange points, where commerce, tourism, manufacturing, and medical services continue with relative ease between habitats and home, and where we can tap into many times more energy than has ever been drilled in human history.

Enough potential exists in the earth-moon system to grow species and the economy to several times what we have on the ground. The non-terrestrial resources needed to do this are well-known and they are close by. From this base, we can explore, exploit, expand, and do science throughout the solar plane and beyond, including the Mars system.

We don't need to escape our problems on the surface of the Earth. We can solve them with activity that gives rise to extraterrestrial man in a sensible, sound way.

[billywilson]

why not use molten salt thorium reactors and save time and money