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Concept for a Mars base, with ice home, pressurized rover, and Mars suits, 2016. The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. [1] Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet.
Both the United States and China has plans to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2040s, but these plans are not backed with hardware and funding. [134]: 219–223 However, SpaceX is currently developing Starship, a super-heavy-lift reusable launch vehicle, with a vision of sending humans to Mars.
Over the years, Elon Musk had offered 2024 and 2026 when asked to predict when SpaceX might be able to send crewed missions to Mars. Elon Musk has another prediction for when humans will land on ...
Space exploration could provide us with the knowledge of our universe as well as incidentally developing inventions and innovations. Traveling to Mars and farther could encourage the development of advances in medicine, health, longevity, transportation, communications that could have applications on Earth. [46]
And we're about to witness Mars reaching opposition in 2025. Even though we can’t hop into a rocket and fly into the galaxy, luckily there are moments when the planets seem to reach out to us ...
But for at least the first 100 years that humans have a presence on Mars, the economic situation will be dubious, said Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program ...
A successful colonization, meaning an established human presence on Mars growing over many decades, would ultimately involve many more economic actors than SpaceX. [43] [44] [45] For reference, Musk's timeline for the colonization of Mars involves a crewed mission as early as 2029 and the development of a self-sustaining colony by 2050. [46]
The human exploration of Mars has been an aspiration since the earliest days of modern rocketry; Robert H. Goddard credits the idea of reaching Mars as his own inspiration to study the physics and engineering of space flight. [144] Proposals for human exploration of Mars have been made throughout the history of space exploration. Currently ...