SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has dangled the prospect of his SpaceX spaceships being ready for trips to Mars next year.
Answering questions during an appearance at the SXSW annual technology and culture conference in Austin, Musk said; “We are building the first Mars, or interplanetary ship, and I think we’ll be able to short trips, flights by first half of next year."
From space travel to deep earth boring, @elonmusk shared his opinions on #AI, Mars, and business today at #SXSW 2018! Watch the full Q&A with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO here: https://t.co/wWu7NFrhnVpic.twitter.com/DNCKVIvTFE
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Musk did give himself a get-out clause by conceding that he might be optimistic in his forecast.
He also expressed the hope that once his SpaceX company has proved traveling to Mars can be done, other companies would move into the field.
“They currently don’t think it’s possible, so if we show them that it is, they’ll up their game and build interplanetary transport vehicles, as well,” he told the SXSW audience.
“In the short-term, Mars is really about getting the spaceship built,” Musk said.
He warned that rather than being a rich person’s jaunt, a trip to Mars would require a frontier mentality.
“For the early people that go to Mars, it will be far more dangerous. It kind of reads like (Ernest) Shackleton’s ad for Antarctic explorers: Difficult, dangerous, good chance you’ll die. Excitement for those who survive,” Musk said.
He also admitted that, as a hard-nosed business venture for people interested on return on investment, building rocket ships bound for Mars – or building electric cars, for that matter – would rank “pretty much at the bottom of the list”.
“They would have to be the dumbest things to do,” Musk said.
“SpaceX is alive by the skin of its teeth; so is Tesla. If things had just gone a little bit the other way, both companies would be dead,” Musk admitted.
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