Musk says first mission to Mars will launch next year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2g88y52y8o

by goodcanadian • 1 year ago

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zfg• 1 year ago

Sure. No government waste there.

DOGE is supposed to be reducing the national debt. Spending money on Mars missions won't reduce the debt.

LorenDB• 1 year ago

This mission will be privately funded. Yes, SpaceX does receive quite a lot of money from NASA, but that is in payment for useful missions on Falcon 9 and with Dragon capsules. SpaceX is spending their own money, including profits from NASA missions and from Starlink, to find the Starship program.

With that being said, NASA is spending some money on Starship, but that is specifically for its development into the HLS moon lander, not for Mars missions.

xenospn• 1 year ago

…right after full self driving and AGI

ggm• 1 year ago

Unmanned, right? So they have to demonstrate flight with insertion into a Mars approach and orbital insertion, and maintain comms.

dialup_sounds• 1 year ago

That's when the next launch window is, whether Starship is ready or not.

maxerickson• 1 year ago

They currently have ~0 Starship launches into low earth orbit and would need something like 10 to even try for Mars. Seems they better pick up the pace.

georgemcbay• 1 year ago

"We're going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years." - Elon Musk (2015)

mindcrash• 1 year ago

I think he should first focus on managing towards a Starship without RUD.

Oh, wait... focus...

beardyw• 1 year ago

When has he ever been wrong?

LinuxBender• 1 year ago

I've always assumed the Mars talk was just cover for producing space weapon transport ships. Trillions of $$$ going into visiting a dead planet is bonkers if real. Humans can't even survive simulated planets in bio-domes without someone becoming unhinged and endangering the mission. If the goal is human survival if an asteroid or super volcano great filter came our way then a large ring ship with artificial gravity makes more sense to me as it can be moved out of the way of hazards, not that we would ever be able to build such a thing.

yanko• 1 year ago

Let's do the talk show live from the moon first...for first time

MilnerRoute• 1 year ago

I think the real question is, "Why is Musk saying this now? Why this particular moment in time?"

My guess is he wants people to focus on something besides Starship's recent explosion. (If not some other recent bad news...)

Musk says first mission to Mars will launch next year

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