Who is Elon Musk?


 Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and lead designer at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), where he oversees the development and manufacturing of advanced rockets and spacecraft for missions to and beyond Earth orbit.

 Elon is also the co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla, which makes electric cars, giant batteries and solar products. He is the co-founder and chairman of OpenAI, a nonprofit research company working to build safe artificial intelligence and ensure that AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.

 Previously, Elon co-founded and sold PayPal, the world's leading Internet payment system, and Zip2, one of the first internet maps and directions services, which helped bring major publishers, including the New York Times and Hearst, online.
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Elon Musk and Project Mars

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 He said that he cant think of anything more exciting than going to Mars.Musk today unveiled a detailed plan to build a human colony on Mars and said the startup plans to land two cargo ships on the planet by 2022.The startup will confirm the source of water and potential hazards by that time. The startup is also aiming to take two crewed flights to Mars by 2024.

Elon Musk Mars Plan Summary


 As mentioned above Elon Musk colonization plan is in progress.He has also prepared a detailed PDF showing more details about the trip to Mars. And this is a short summary of Elon Musk Mars Plan.

 In the PDF he starts by asking " Why go anywhere ?" and "Why Mars". His reply for choosing mars is because it is one of the closest planets to earth other than Venus.And he explains it more clearly by comparing Mars with Earth.See the image below
Earth and Mars comparison
According to him the cost for taking to Mars will be 10 Billion per person.And he says that this is not a big amount, the cost of the trip is equal to the cost of a median house in the United States.

Another important feature of the vehicle to Mars will be the Reusability and Be Refilling in Orbit.The spaceship can take the man to Mars and can use the same to bring man back to Earth.

Mission Objectives

  • Learn how to transport and land large payloads on Mars 
  • Identify and characterize potential resources such as water
  • Characterize potential landing sites, including identifying surface hazards 
  • Demonstrate key surface capabilities on Mars 
He has also given a detailed idea about the Spaceship in his PDF. If you are interested you can see more details about in the PDF.

He ends the PDF giving creating hopes in mind by showing the images of Spaceship in Jupiter ,Enceladus, Europa and Saturn with a title beyond Mars.