EdEarl Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 (edited) Elon Musk has a fantastic idea for putting people on Mars, in a ship SpaceX intends to design and build big enough to carry 100 people from Earth and Mars, and back if necessary. The attached video was not produced by SpaceX; rather, by an individual who studied statements by Musk and other SpaceX officials, and came up with the following: The booster for the MCT will be 10-15 meters in diameter and about 200 feet tall. We are living in an era of huge projects: extremely large optical telescopes, a square kilometer of radio telescope antenna, the Mars Colonial Transporter, and super sized cities. Musk has stated the purpose of SpaceX is to colonize Mars with a self sustaining culture, a project larger and more difficult than any previously done. There are many unknowns; a big one is Mars low gravity. Can humans thrive in so low a gravity? Edited August 18, 2016 by EdEarl
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