Musk wrote in New Space: “The main reason I am personally accumulating assets is in order to fund this. Technologically, this project appears to be more advanced than the other “crazy ideas.”SpaceX has built and tested a prototype of the Raptor engine Musk wants to use to send spaceships to Mars. Musk is talking about starting to launch regular unmanned flights to Mars “in a couple of years.”A promoter worthy of P.T. Musk’s New Space piece reads as though the Tesla founder dictated it all in one breath. He’s hoping other wealthy people will want to fund a Mars base, and perhaps there will be interest from governments.

Source: Mint June 20, 2017 06:45 UTC