In 2016, Musk introduced plans to construct a settlement on Mars and mentioned that he hoped to make people a multiplanetary species.
The long-term objective of his firm SpaceX has been to design rockets and spacecraft that may land and take-off from the floor of different planets.
The corporate lately carried out a profitable orbital insertion of Starship, the vessel that may take people again to the Moon and past.
On the newest launch, SpaceX mentioned that sooner or later, Starship would make many journeys taking supplies and gear to Mars to start out a metropolis.
Musk has mentioned that he believes Mars might be a “back-up drive” for humanity within the occasion of catastrophic international warming, an asteroid strike or a nuclear winter, and believes that the planet might be warmed by nuclear weapons.
Lord Rees mentioned: “He has carried out a significantly better job than the massive conglomerates that used to work for Nasa in producing environment friendly rockets, which might be reused, and that may make it cheaper to truly ship stuff into house and extra possible to have some engineering carried out in house and even photo voltaic vitality gathered from house.
“My line on human house flight is that it shouldn’t be funded publicly, definitely not by authorities companies as a result of they’ve acquired to be very security aware and that makes it very costly.
“Robots can do all the sensible issues, assembling large constructions in house and exploring the floor of Mars and all that. If people wish to fly into house as an journey, then maybe they are often supported by sponsorship or the billionaires.
“We all know that Messrs Musk and Bezos are spending billions on house exploration and so they might maybe launch the form of folks, adventurers ready to just accept a really excessive danger and subsequently be launched way more cheaply.
“So my line is that robots ought to do all the sensible issues and solely individuals who actually have a excessive urge for food for danger ought to be going into house, and they need to be privately funded, not by the remainder of us.”
