Space & Astronomy

Elon Musk wants manned trip to Mars by 2025

By T.K. Randall
January 31, 2016

Image: Elon Musk at the SpaceX CRS-8 post-launch press conference
Credit: Kim Shiflett / (PD) NASA Musk, who has plans to eventually build a city on the Red Planet, told attendees at the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong this week that SpaceX was planning to launch a manned mission to Mars within the next decade and announced that he would be unveiling the architecture of a Mars spacecraft at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico later this year.

"Mars is the next natural step. In fact, it's the only planet we have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on," he said."Once we do establish such a city, there will be strong forcing function for the improvement of space flight technology that will then enable us to establish colonies elsewhere in the solar system and ultimately extend beyond our solar system."

"It would be exciting and inspiring, and there needs to be things that excite and inspire people."

Source: UPI.com

Tags: Elon Musk, Mars