Elon Musk Plan To Colonize Mars! When & How?

Elon Musk Plan To Colonize Mars!

For years, the whole science world has been thrown into a debate on the possibility of an occupation of Mars. With the belief that NASA wasn't doing more to get people to Mars and that Earth might eventually become an uninhabitable wasteland, Elon Musk founded SpaceX, the rocket company making raves today.

Facts have proven that humans can easily adapt and survive on Mars. But Elon Musk mentioned in an interview that the first humans there would die, but only after they have successfully satisfied their Mars exploration and lived out their lives.

Apart from the fact that the journey to Mars will take around six months, it will take an amount of around 1,000 spaceships and a million tons of vitamin C to make life on Mars verifiable. Elon Musk believes that life on Mars can only be achievable if there is a self-sustaining city there.

One thing that has been a major obstacle to the Mars occupation is the ships and their need to resupply.

For the time being, the issue of ships coming down to Earth from Mars after landing there has been on those tables for a long, even with NASA confirming that their supplies for the planet will not be for tourist travels, but for the continuation of life there.

Avertly, the sustainability of life on Mars depends on how much is needed for colonization. Judging from the fact that the planet is slightly different from our Earth, those who find themselves on Mars might experience a little bit of difficulty, especially without enough supplies to last them for their intended time there.

Interestingly SpaceX hopes to send up a Starship on the back of the Super Heavy booster, which Musk commonly refers to as the BFR.

The BFR will be 25 stories high, with about 42 powerful Raptor engines, which can lift an entire Boeing 747. In his plans to colonize the Red Planet, Elon Musk outlined that the BFR will push the Starship into space and connect to a similar booster already put in place to provide support throughout the journey to Mars.

The Starship transportation system to Mars is to endure each launch of SpaceX's reusable Starship rockets, about three times per day on average, while carrying a 100-ton payload on each flight, with more than 1,000 flights per year carrying more than about 100 tons of cargo on each flight.

1,000 Starships could send around 100,000 people every 26 months from Earth to Mars because, at that time, their orbits are best aligned for interplanetary travel.

As a matter of interest, Earth and Mars align, and get close to each other only once in two years, which creates the window for quick passage. While most of the fuel will be consumed by each ship flying into orbit around Earth, several other tanker spaceships could launch and refill the carriers with more fuel to reach the destination, Mars.

Clearly, Elon Musk stated that the human invasion of Mars will not happen anytime soon.

However, he mentioned that compared to Earth, there will be lots of jobs, including direct democracy where inhabitants will make decisions for themselves with fewer and much less complicated laws compared to Earth. As regards food, it will be grown on solar-powered hydroponic farms located underground or in an enclosed structure.

The refueling of the spaceships will only be done easily enough with the resources found on the planet. The SpaceX ships use liquid methane and liquid oxygen as fuel, and it can easily be recreated on Mars using the Saboteur process.

In case you don't know, this type of fuel makes it easy to reuse rocket boosters for an amount of time, because it burns cleanly.

To generate a useful amount of fuel on Mars it will roughly take 26 months and by the calculation of SpaceX engineers, the necessary power to make the Saboteur work will need about 56,600 square meters of ground based on solar panels which can be simply moved to Mars in a single starship.

Furthermore, to safely keep the human colonies from the harsh ionizing radiation, initial settlements might need to be organized in deep subsurface artificial encampments.

How do you think the connection with the colonists on Mars will be maintained? Let me know in the comments section.

For a fact, we do know that Musk wants the first starships to be filled with machines and cargo necessary for proximate future missions.

These equipment are needed for humans to build enough sustainable facilities to generate power, tweak the Martian air, gather water, and transform the raw resources into oxygen and methane fuel for safe return launches to Earth.

The first two uncrewed starships will confirm the water resources on the planet and locations that pique interest.

Elon Musk also stated that a Mars base could be completed by 2028, and a lot of life support experts have expressed their doubts about the fact that they do not believe that the necessary technologies for life will be ready, not to even mention a permanent city for colonization.

Currently, SpaceX is building its first set of Starship orbital vehicles and is conducting tests in a South Texas facility, very much close to Earth's core. From this facility in Boca Chica, Texas, it launched many test flights of Starship prototypes and is preparing for many more tests shortly.

The colonization of Mars will most likely take years, but it will surely be worth the wait in the end.

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