Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: 'Are you prepared to die? Then okay, you're a candidate' — a reminder that the manned mission to Mars might be a deadly one
Elon Musk's long-term ambition of colonizing Mars is an idea you'd normally find in science fiction novels rather than something actually on the cards for humanity today. Yet that's what the tech entrepreneur is hoping we can achieve within his lifetime. As for the first humans on Mars? It's likely to be much sooner – and even as soon as 2030.
Life on Mars
Musk bluntly outlined the possible risks that any manned mission to Mars will involve when speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) a decade ago.
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His comments underlined the fact that the engineers and astronauts involved in the first flights will have to...
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