Elon Musk Says SpaceX ‘City on Mars’ Will Be Announced in Guadalajara, Mexico

[kevindavis]

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Following last Friday’s historic landing of the Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s autonomous drone ship, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a surprise (and rare) appearance at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and told the media when he’ll lay out his plans to colonize Mars.

In the final moments of the post-launch press conference, Musk confirmed that he’ll be giving a talk at the International Aeronautical Conference (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico this September and that’s when he’ll make the much-anticipated announcements.

“I thought that would be a good venue to describe what we think would be a good approach,” he said when prompted by the Observer. “Something that would be effective for establishing a city on Mars.”

Such a statement isn’t to be taken lightly especially by a man who just pre-sold over 276,000 Tesla Model 3 electric cars, landed a 14-story tall rocket on a wobbly ship in the ocean, and even sent a spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station—all in a matter of weeks.

 

“I think it’s going to sound pretty crazy,” Musk said when referring to his Mars plans. “So it should at least be entertaining.”

 

 

Elon Musk believes that the key to becoming a multi-planet species is developing reusable rockets. “That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space,” he said in a statement via the SpaceX website.

 

The billionaire commented on his vision for Mars earlier this year at the Venture Forum in Hong Kong where he also said he “hoped” to showcase SpaceX’s “architecture” for that vision at the IAC conference in Mexico. A forum Musk referred to as the “big international space event every year.”

 

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is currently being unloaded at the ISS—a mission that resumes NASA-contracted supply runs that have been put on hold since last year’s mission failure. With the mishap now in his rear-view and now that SpaceX has successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on both land and sea, it’s time for Elon Musk to refocus on Mars.

 

“It’s a fundamental decision we have to make as a civilization,” Musk said in Hong Kong. “Mars is the next, natural step. In fact, it’s the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on.”

 

Elon Musk has mentioned on multiple occasions that his aim is to send humans to the red planet sometime in the mid 2020’s, but until September there is nothing official. Just rumblings on Reddit and internet rumors about a Mars Colonial Transporter—a large spaceship that could initially help establish a city of dozens.

[SrWoodchuck]

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Following last Friday’s historic landing of the Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s autonomous drone ship, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a surprise (and rare) appearance at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and told the media when he’ll lay out his plans to colonize Mars.

In the final moments of the post-launch press conference, Musk confirmed that he’ll be giving a talk at the International Aeronautical Conference (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico this September and that’s when he’ll make the much-anticipated announcements.

“I thought that would be a good venue to describe what we think would be a good approach,” he said when prompted by the Observer. “Something that would be effective for establishing a city on Mars.”

Such a statement isn’t to be taken lightly especially by a man who just pre-sold over 276,000 Tesla Model 3 electric cars, landed a 14-story tall rocket on a wobbly ship in the ocean, and even sent a spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station—all in a matter of weeks.

 

“I think it’s going to sound pretty crazy,” Musk said when referring to his Mars plans. “So it should at least be entertaining.”

 

 

Elon Musk believes that the key to becoming a multi-planet species is developing reusable rockets. “That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space,” he said in a statement via the SpaceX website.

 

The billionaire commented on his vision for Mars earlier this year at the Venture Forum in Hong Kong where he also said he “hoped” to showcase SpaceX’s “architecture” for that vision at the IAC conference in Mexico. A forum Musk referred to as the “big international space event every year.”

 

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is currently being unloaded at the ISS—a mission that resumes NASA-contracted supply runs that have been put on hold since last year’s mission failure. With the mishap now in his rear-view and now that SpaceX has successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on both land and sea, it’s time for Elon Musk to refocus on Mars.

 

“It’s a fundamental decision we have to make as a civilization,” Musk said in Hong Kong. “Mars is the next, natural step. In fact, it’s the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on.”

 

Elon Musk has mentioned on multiple occasions that his aim is to send humans to the red planet sometime in the mid 2020’s, but until September there is nothing official. Just rumblings on Reddit and internet rumors about a Mars Colonial Transporter—a large spaceship that could initially help establish a city of dozens.

 

 

@kevindavis!

 

Why not Juarez...where the environment is just as deadly as that of Mars?

 

Live that dream, or die trying?

[kevindavis]

 

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Following last Friday’s historic landing of the Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s autonomous drone ship, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a surprise (and rare) appearance at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and told the media when he’ll lay out his plans to colonize Mars.

In the final moments of the post-launch press conference, Musk confirmed that he’ll be giving a talk at the International Aeronautical Conference (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico this September and that’s when he’ll make the much-anticipated announcements.

“I thought that would be a good venue to describe what we think would be a good approach,” he said when prompted by the Observer. “Something that would be effective for establishing a city on Mars.”

Such a statement isn’t to be taken lightly especially by a man who just pre-sold over 276,000 Tesla Model 3 electric cars, landed a 14-story tall rocket on a wobbly ship in the ocean, and even sent a spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station—all in a matter of weeks.

 

“I think it’s going to sound pretty crazy,” Musk said when referring to his Mars plans. “So it should at least be entertaining.”

 

 

Elon Musk believes that the key to becoming a multi-planet species is developing reusable rockets. “That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space,” he said in a statement via the SpaceX website.

 

The billionaire commented on his vision for Mars earlier this year at the Venture Forum in Hong Kong where he also said he “hoped” to showcase SpaceX’s “architecture” for that vision at the IAC conference in Mexico. A forum Musk referred to as the “big international space event every year.”

 

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is currently being unloaded at the ISS—a mission that resumes NASA-contracted supply runs that have been put on hold since last year’s mission failure. With the mishap now in his rear-view and now that SpaceX has successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on both land and sea, it’s time for Elon Musk to refocus on Mars.

 

“It’s a fundamental decision we have to make as a civilization,” Musk said in Hong Kong. “Mars is the next, natural step. In fact, it’s the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on.”

 

Elon Musk has mentioned on multiple occasions that his aim is to send humans to the red planet sometime in the mid 2020’s, but until September there is nothing official. Just rumblings on Reddit and internet rumors about a Mars Colonial Transporter—a large spaceship that could initially help establish a city of dozens.

 

 

@kevindavis!

 

Why not Juarez...where the environment is just as deadly as that of Mars?

 

Live that dream, or die trying?

 

 

Just die trying..

[Valin]

Relateted

Neil Armstrong’s Forgotten First Space Flight
If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most likely have been shut down.
Josh Gelernter

April 16, 2016

 

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20, 1962. A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere during reentry. There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to slow Glenn’s capsule enough for it to fall out of orbit — strapped over his heat shield; Mission Control worked out that if, instead of being jettisoned, it were left in place during reentry, it would hold on the heat-shield. And it did. Though Mission Control worried that if there was any rocket propellant left in the rocket-pack’s tanks, it would explode, killing Glenn. Happily, it didn’t.

 

(Snip)

 

 

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One thing we always have to remember is Space is a very very dangerous place...one screw up...you're dead...as in DEAD.

[nickydog]

Relateted

 

Neil Armstrong’s Forgotten First Space Flight

If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most likely have been shut down.

Josh Gelernter

April 16, 2016

 

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20, 1962. A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere during reentry. There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to slow Glenn’s capsule enough for it to fall out of orbit — strapped over his heat shield; Mission Control worked out that if, instead of being jettisoned, it were left in place during reentry, it would hold on the heat-shield. And it did. Though Mission Control worried that if there was any rocket propellant left in the rocket-pack’s tanks, it would explode, killing Glenn. Happily, it didn’t.

 

(Snip)

 

 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

One thing we always have to remember is Space is a very very dangerous place...one screw up...you're dead...as in DEAD.

 

Welll -- unless you're Matt Damon, of course.

[Valin]

 

Relateted

 

Neil Armstrong’s Forgotten First Space Flight

If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most likely have been shut down.

Josh Gelernter

April 16, 2016

 

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20, 1962. A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere during reentry. There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to slow Glenn’s capsule enough for it to fall out of orbit — strapped over his heat shield; Mission Control worked out that if, instead of being jettisoned, it were left in place during reentry, it would hold on the heat-shield. And it did. Though Mission Control worried that if there was any rocket propellant left in the rocket-pack’s tanks, it would explode, killing Glenn. Happily, it didn’t.

 

(Snip)

 

 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

One thing we always have to remember is Space is a very very dangerous place...one screw up...you're dead...as in DEAD.

 

Welll -- unless you're Matt Damon, of course.

 

 

 

Actually The Martian is a pretty good flick