Imagine taking a trip to Mars for just $100,000. It could happen in the not-to-distant future. The Space X CEO is laying out a bold vision of commercial flights to the Red Planet. On Tuesday, he said he’d like to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft. He estimates the cost of such a flight at about $80 to $100 million. At a conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk presented a video illustrating his concept of an interplanetary transport system based on reusable rockets, a propellant farm on Mars and 1,000 spaceships on orbit, carrying about 100 people each, according to Yahoo News.
“I think the first trips to Mars are going to be really, very dangerous. The risk of fatality will be high. There is just no way around it,” Musk said. “It would basically be, ‘Are you prepared to die?’ Then if that’s ok, then you are a candidate for going.”
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