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SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There

Posted by timothy on from the it's-not-earth-musk's-after dept.

mknewman writes with an article at NASA SpaceFlight which lays out the details of a plan from SpaceX to send a craft to Mars, using an in-development engine ("Raptor") along with the company's Super Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle. "Additionally, Mr. Musk also introduced the mysterious MCT project, which he later revealed to be an acronym for Mars Colonial Transport. This system would be capable of transporting 100 colonists at a time to Mars, and would be fully reusable. Article is technically dense but he does seem to follow through on his promises!" This is an endeavor that's been on Elon Musk's mind for a while.

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  1. Good by The+Cat · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's about time America started acting like America again.

  2. Re:Groovy ... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is putting humans into a forbidding, empty, hostile radiation-blasted hell so important?

    Because it's there.

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  3. Re:Boldly going to the 1960s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Deja emacs, you troll.