While most people would question what would it take to send people within the vicinity of Mars, SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk questions how to colonize it. He's about to reveal how in a much-anticipated speech set for Tuesday.
The teaser for the speech was revealed at the International Astronautical Congress held in Guadalajara, Mexico. SpaceX's Musk revealed that he will be offering more details on a system he aptly called "Mars Colonial Transporter," which can apparently send about a hundred people to Mars.
The speech, entitled "Making Humans a Multi-planetary Species" will be streamed online and it's expected to have a certain level of humor.
"I think it's going to sound pretty crazy, so it should be at least entertaining," he said earlier this year at Kennedy Space Center, after SpaceX launched supplies to the International Space Station, as reported by Florida Today.
As crazy as it may sound, the speech is highly anticipated because humanity's constant search of beings that exist outside our planet. In fact, Musk's speech is central to the foundation of SpaceX as it was his goal from the very beginning.
"Elon has been saying since the beginning of SpaceX that they were focused in the long-term on Martian settlement," said Hannah Kerner, executive director of the Space Frontier Foundation. "Especially in comparison to the speed that NASA's 'Journey to Mars' has been moving, people are really looking to SpaceX to follow through on what they're saying."
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) actually has its own version of Musk's Mars colonization and that's what Kerner referred to as "Journey to Mars." In comparison to NASA's mission, Musk's goal involves sending people for landing on the Red Planet by 2025, a decade before NASA foresees being able to send its astronauts somewhere near it.
The reason behind Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Musk's drive and passion to invade and colonize Mars was summarized by Kerner:
"SpaceX is saying, this is for everyone, this is technology for humanity. We're bringing people to Mars because that's what humans do: We explore and we expand."
