Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto play"Stop the planet I want to get off" feels like an increasingly popular sentiment these last few weeks. It's something to which Elon Musk and the team at SpaceX might reply: "Give us a few years, we're working on it!" Buggering off to live on Mars might just be a cool sci-fi dream at the moment, but SpaceX are working on making it a reality. "If they nail this ability to land a rocket any way they want on Earth, then they can nail doing it on Mars," speculates Petranek. Assuming they do nail it, in 2033 the six astronauts eventually make it to Mars.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 24, 2016 22:42 UTC