American inventor intends to colonize Mars

‘We should move from reconnaissance missions to the construction of the full-fledged city’, Mask claimed demonstrating his ambitious plan in Mexican city Guadalajara on Tuesday.

The plan of Mask is based on the building of the huge space ship while each of the steps could be used several times. This concept allows to reduce the cost of ticket for the flight to Mars to 200 thousand dollars.

In the course of two-hour video presentation, Mask described quite a lot of technical details.

For the implementation of the program Space X it is proposed to build a large space ship that exceeds the size of shuttle approximately in three times. On the Earth it will be fueled with condensate methane and oxygen. On Mars Mask wants, firstly, to start reaching fuel for the flight back.

For his purposes Mask invents a new jet-motor Raptor and new model of the booster for which only fuel container has been invented.

In 2018, when Mars is about to come closer to the Earth at the distance of 57.6 million kilometers, Space X is planning to send unmanned sling to the Red planet.

The manned mission with the passengers, according to Mask’s plans, is also a little ways down the road as Space X counts that it could be able to send the first ship with the people in 2022.

In the course of presentation, the entrepreneur shared his intention to build a colony at Mars consisting of one million citizens. That would allow to come to homesteading. According to his forecasts, it should take nearly one hundred years.

This year, company of Mask arranged qualification test of reusable launch vehicle ‘Falcon 9’. Earlier, Space X made a contract with NASA at 1.6 billion dollars on the delivery of cargo at the International Space Station.