SpaceX is getting serious about putting humans on Mars…
by Jeff Brown, editor, The Bleeding Edge
All eyes are on Elon Musk and Twitter right now. So, I wouldn’t blame us if we missed another major announcement from Musk.
But this is one we don’t want to miss. Musk’s latest announcement is out of this world and has huge implications for space exploration.
Elon Musk just announced that SpaceX plans to build 1,000 Starships over the next 10 years. This will give SpaceX the ability to send one million people to Mars by 2050. It’s getting real…
We have talked about SpaceX’s Starship several times in The Bleeding Edge.
The Starship is the world’s first reusable all-purpose spacecraft. It’s made of stainless steel and shaped like a giant corn silo. Which makes it a bit crazy that this is the spacecraft that will power NASA’s manned mission to the Moon in 2024.
As for its measurements, the latest version of the Starship is 394 feet tall and 30 feet wide. It’s capable of carrying over 100 metric tons into space. Here’s a visual:
SpaceX’s Starship
Source: Space Flight Insider
Here we can get a sense of just how massive the Starship is. This is the spacecraft that will enable humanity’s first interplanetary colony.
And that brings us to perhaps what is Musk’s most innovative idea for Mars expeditions…
Mars is rich in raw materials like oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water ice. These materials can be used to create methane, which is a great fuel propellant.
Musk’s plan is to build a fuel manufacturing facility on Mars. That will be a major priority for some of the first manned missions to the Red Planet.
Being able to make fuel on Mars will reduce the need to carry extra fuel into space in order to support return missions. By manufacturing fuel on Mars, it will enable many of the Starships to return back to Earth to be reused again, which will reduce the overall costs of inhabiting Mars.
But in order to pull this off, we’ll need a lot of spacecraft. That’s why the announcement of 1,000 new Starships is so incredible.
What makes this announcement even more meaningful is that all the technology to make this happen exists today. Musk and his team at SpaceX have already built the heavy launcher, and the Starship has already had a series of successful suborbital flights.
Musk thinks that with reusability and mass production, SpaceX can ultimately get the cost of an individual ticket to Mars down to about $100,000. That’s not exactly cheap.
But it is a price point that those who are willing to make the journey could save up for. I could even envision companies sending some of their executives and employees to the Red Planet to support the expansion of their businesses. Who wouldn’t want to be part of building a multi-planetary business operation?
The bottom line is that we could very well have a manned presence on Mars within the decade. This idea would have sounded crazy 10 years ago… but not today. The technology exists. And SpaceX already has a clear plan in place to make it a reality.
Of course, there are still some major milestones that SpaceX must hit before any missions to Mars.
The company is gearing up for its first orbital launch of the Starship next month from its Boca Chica facility in Texas. That’s the next step. Presuming things go well and SpaceX has a series of successful test flights, it is theoretically possible to support a manned mission to the Moon in 2024.
After that, Mars won’t be that far behind.
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