The main problem here is not in delivering people to the planet, but in creating a "self-sufficient base" on it, said the head of SpaceX
NEW YORK, March 23. /TASS/. Flights and landings on Mars of the Starship spacecraft ("Starship") of the American company SpaceX ("Space-ex") will become a reality in the next few years. This was written on Tuesday in the "Twitter" head of the company Elon Musk.
"SpaceX will start landing Starship ships on Mars long before 2030," he said on the social network. The main problem, as the entrepreneur made it clear, is not in delivering people to the planet, but in creating a "self-sufficient base" on it. "This is a really difficult threshold stage," he said.
Musk has previously noted the difficulty of building a permanent base on Mars for human habitation and considered this task as a deterrent to the development of the planet, but he considered the flights to it possible in six years or even four years. A more short-term forecast, judging by Musk's latest tweet, seems more likely to him now. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) considers this task feasible only in the mid-2030s.
Earlier, the 49-year-old Musk admitted that his company will not have time to fulfill its fundamental task before his death - to send a ship to Mars. He has repeatedly stressed that he founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of helping humanity colonize Mars. For this purpose, the Starship spacecraft is being developed, designed for 100 people.
