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Elon Musk To Unveil Mars Spacecraft Later This Year, For 2025 Flight (foxnews.com)
frank249 writes: Fox News is reporting that Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to unveil plans for the spacecraft that would send humans to Mars within a decade. Speaking at an event in Hong Kong, Musk said he was 'hoping to describe the architecture' of the spacecraft at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico in late September. "That will be quite exciting," Musk said. 'In terms of the first flight to Mars, we are hoping to do that around 2025.' As for his plans to go into space, Musk said he was hoping to reach the International Space Station 'four or five years from now.'
Why hasn't Twitter banned this guy yet??
Humans have been on the moon, but except for a moment of feeling proud of oneselves, that didn't really earn us more insight than unmanned probes, so it was only plausible that decades went by without further manned visits there.
It won't be any different with Mars. Somebody will go there one day, for earning the fame "to have done it first". He will find the same boring dust there that we already know about. And again, decades will pass that don't see somebody repeat the stunt.
I wished that mankind would invest more into exploring the very interesting places that still remain largely unexplored on earth, like the depths of the oceans. And using unmanned probes is fine there, too, it's just much cheaper and means less unnecessary risk.
I walked to the shops today. I suppose that makes me an expert in trans-world marathoning and survival training for the journey too.