Elon Musk said that in the worst case scenario, SpaceX would bring humans to Mars in 10 years.
Spaceship engineering and cost reduction are the determining factors. “No amount of money can get a ticket to Mars,” added in Lex Fridman.
Elon Musk said that SpaceX will bring people to Mars in 10 years with its Starship rocket, in the worst case break, the billionaire replied: “The best case is about five years, the worst case 10 years.
Musk told Fridman that the determining factors included the design of the vehicle, adding that “Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket ever built.
“The basic optimization of Starship is to minimize the cost per ton for orbit and ultimately the cost per ton for the Martian surface,” Musk told Fridman on the podcast. Millions of dollars, Musk told Fridman.
“No amount of money can get a ticket to Mars,” he said on the podcast.The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has predicted multiple dates for his company’s arrival and landing on the Red Planet.
Musk said in an interview with the Clubhouse audio app in February that it will be “five and a half years” before a manned SpaceX spacecraft mission takes place.
Missile could land on the red planet. Musk tweeted in March that his aerospace company would land its Starship missiles “long before” 2030 on Mars.
SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030. The really hard threshold is making Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2021
Experts say it could take longer than they predict if things don’t go exactly according to plan during the three remaining launch opportunities before 2026.
Musk is finally planning to build 1,000 Starship missiles, launching three of them a day, to bring a million people to the Red Planet.