Instead, the space and electric-car entrepreneur will be talking about realizing his boyhood dream: going to Mars. “I think it’s going to sound pretty crazy,” Musk said, referring to his Mars speech, at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center last April. Such earthbound woes aside, going to Mars is no longer the stuff of science fiction. “Extreme camping.”SpaceX plans to fly an unmanned spacecraft to Mars as early 2018. “Mars is the closest planet that we can realistically settle,” said Robert Zubrin, author of The Case for Mars and founder of the Mars Society, where Musk once served on the board.

Source: Mint September 23, 2016 11:17 UTC