After the historic landing of the Falcon 9 rocket, on SpaceX’s independent drone ship, last Friday, Elon Musk, the CEO, made a rare appearance at Kennedy Space Center (NASA’S). Then he reported to the media of his plans to occupy Mars.
During the end of the post-launch press conference, Elon Musk said that he would be talking at the International Aeronautical Congress, IAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico this September. This is also when Musk will announce what is highly anticipated. When asked by the Observer, about the much-awaited announcement at the IAC venue, Musk simply said that it will be about building a city on Mars.
His statement cannot be ignored seeing that in just a few weeks he just pre-sold more than 276,000 Telsa Model 3 electrical cars, landed a fourteen-storey high rocket on a shaky ship in the sea, and made a spacecraft that connects with the International Space Station.
Elon thinks that the only way to living on different planets is to make renewable rockets. In a statement through SpaceX website, Musk confirmed that new rockets will modernize access to space. At a Venture Forum held in Hong Kong earlier this year, Musk revealed his vision about Mars and disclosed his hopes to demonstrate SpaceX’s project at the IAC forum in Mexico.
Currently, the Dragon cargo spacecraft is being unloaded at NASA’s ISS. Although the ISS mission was put off last year due to failure, there is hope that SpaceX’s plans about Mars will succeed because they have successfully docked the initial stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on sea and land. On many occasions, Elon Musk has expressed his goal to send people to Mars, the red planet, in the middle of 2020’s. Until September this year, however, Musk has made nothing official.