“These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of an intact landing on Mars,” Musk said, adding that if those landings go well, his space company will launch its first crewed flights to Mars in four years.
“The rate of flights will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sufficient city in about 20 years,” the billionaire said.
The first spacecraft to Mars will be launched within two years, when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.
There will be no crew to test the reliability of a safe landing on Mars. If the landings go well, the first manned flights to Mars will take place within four years.
The flight rate will be… https://t.co/ZuiM00dpe9
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2024
In April, Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, said the first unmanned spacecraft to land on Mars would arrive within five years, and the first people would land on Mars within seven years.
In June, a Starship rocket survived a fiery hypersonic return from space and achieved a groundbreaking landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean, completing a full, around-the-world test mission on the rocket’s fourth attempt.
Musk is counting on Starship to fulfill his goal of producing a large, multipurpose next-generation spacecraft capable of sending people and cargo to the Moon by the end of this decade and ultimately flying to Mars.
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