SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon musk received an award from media giant Axel Springer on Tuesday and sat down to give a broad interview covering topics such as space, Tesla, AI and even the subpopulation. Musk first addressed SpaceX’s ambitions on Mars, providing the current timelines he’s working on to reach the Red Planet with SpaceX
Starship, the next-generation spacecraft that hopes to fly in a new high-altitude test this week.
Musk said he hopes the humans will land on March in about six years, and he’s “pretty confident” in that timeline. This is based on the fact that Earth and Mars are synchronized in terms of their relative orbits around the Sun every 26 months or so, and he plans to do an unmanned launch and landing. March I hope next time in about two years. He added that hopefully a first human landing could take place during the next Mars-Earth synchronization after that, so in four years instead of six.
When asked when Musk’s first trip to orbit would take place, he replied maybe two or three years ago, “though he called his main goal is to make sure the technology is in place to allow “a lot of people to go to Mars and have it. life is interplanetary. and have a base on the Moon, ”minimizing its own spaceflight goals.
He also reiterated his ambition to eventually be buried on Mars (but not due to accidental death in an impact in a spaceship crash) and explained how, while he believes becoming a space company is existential in his opinion, and in the end, it will be necessary for humans. survival, you also expect it to be fun, exciting, and engaging rather than a necessary risk.
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Starship is preparing for its first major high altitude flight test, as mentioned. Will fly to SpaceX Texas Development Center, and that test launch could take place later this week, although the company has yet to perform a key static engine test test of its prototype before an actual flight.