Elon Musk is known for his dreams of conquering space. One of his latest projects includes building a permanent colony on Mars with regular flights of the space shelter from Starship. But how realistic are such goals?
When reported Per e -mail Online, the head of SpaceX recently stated that the company is planning to send its spaceship to the Red Planet together with the Robotic Passenger next year. According to Musk, this flight will be the first step to the exploration of Mars by people.
In a few years he wants to organize regular flights to Mars and deliver the first settlers, which he would rather call ‘settlers’. In the future, the number of ships built should grow so much that dozens of flights are sent to Mars every day.
Musk claims that the facility in Texas of SpaceX will build 1,000 spaceships per year to transport millions of people to Mars and create an alien civilization.
However, the reality is far from these optimistic statements. Firstly, the testing of the spaceship itself is far from flexible: prototypes of the rocket fail regularly and are destroyed during test flights. Despite the trust of the SpaceX team, it is unlikely that the technical problems will be solved quickly.
Secondly, the task is to arrange the red planet is much more complicated than just building bases.
There is no necessary infrastructure, no production facilities to ensure the survival of future Martians, no way of protection against radiation and no other critical elements of living support.
Even launching one ship requires solving many problems, not to mention creating a whole civilization far from the earth.
Although the idea of establishing a human colony on Mars is indeed inspiring, the current situation shows that Musk seems too ambitious to the time frame of Musk. Humanity is likely to reach Mars one day, but not quickly and certainly not as quickly as one of the richest people in the world.
