One way ticket: Musk detailed the plan to send the first people to Mars

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has confirmed that the first people to go to Mars will never return to Earth. They will have to dismantle their spaceships for the sake of valuable raw materials, reports Life hacker.

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The businessman spoke about this during a presentation at the Texas SpaceX base in Boca Chica (Texas). There, the billionaire again said that his company has long been developing a plan to send the first million people to Mars. Read about the first person with a chip in his brain in our article.

According to Musk, the settlement of the Red Planet will be based on the use of Starship ships. Note that he does not plan to provide for the possibility of returning the first vehicles that will be sent to Mars. Read about Elon Musk's 11 children here.

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“These ships will be useful to them on Mars. Starship parts can be used to obtain valuable materials on site. It would be more useful not to return these ships, but to use them as a source of raw materials,” Musk explained.

“Of course, then it will come to the return vehicles. We will have to give people the opportunity to come back, because someone will probably want to do it. But I think most people who go to Mars will never get to Earth,” he noted.

Autonomous life on Mars

Elon Musk hopes that with the help of Starship, sooner or later it will be possible to make humanity a multiplanetary species. We can talk about this when a human colony on Mars can support itself independently without support from Earth. This will require about a million people, as well as several million tons of cargo that must first be delivered to the Red Planet.

The creator of SpaceX assigns a special role in this mission to his Starship, which is undergoing flight tests. Three attempts have already been made to launch a rocket in conjunction with the Super Heavy first stage. During the last attempt, almost all stages of the flight went smoothly, but the ship fell apart upon entering the dense layers of the atmosphere. Musk hopes that the fourth attempt, scheduled for early May, will avoid this.

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After a couple of successful splashdowns, SpaceX will attempt to return Starship for a soft landing on the pad. The company will try to first land the Super Heavy booster on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and then on a special service tower.

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