Does Elon Musk want to go to Mars?

Does Elon Musk want to go to Mars?

SpaceX recently secured a contract with NASA’s Human Landing Systems (HLS) program to develop and build a lunar lander for the agency’s Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the moon by 2024. As recently as December, Musk stated publicly that it was possible that SpaceX would land humans on Mars by 2026.

Does SpaceX and NASA work together?

SpaceX has been working closely with NASA experts during the HLS base period of performance to inform its lander design and ensure it meets NASA’s performance requirements and human spaceflight standards.

Who will SpaceX send to Mars?

SpaceX’s aspirational goal has been to land the first humans on Mars by 2024, but in October 2020 Elon Musk named 2024 as goal for an uncrewed mission. At the Axel Springer Award 2020 Elon Musk said that he is highly confident that the first crewed flights to Mars will happen in 2026.

Who will go to Mars first?

The ambitious target is part of a plan to build a base on the Red Planet, in an intensifying space rivalry with the US. China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet and extract its resources.

Is Elon Musk funding NASA?

Elon Musk’s company bested Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others in the contest to carry American astronauts to the lunar surface. Elon Musk’s private space company is developing a giant rocket called Starship to one day take people to Mars.

Who will get to Mars first?

How did Elon Musk get the SpaceX contract with NASA?

Fortunately, on 23 December 2008, Nasa awarded SpaceX with a $1.6bn contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the ISS. Describing his reaction, Musk said: “I couldn’t even maintain my composure, I was like: ‘I love you guys’.” The company’s Dragon 1 capsule could carry cargo and supplies, but not humans.

Can SpaceX land on the Moon?

In the meantime, SpaceX, driven by its founder’s own vision for space exploration, has worked on solo efforts such as Starship, the project that NASA has picked for its Artemis program. Musk wants to use the spaceship-and-rocket combo to carry passengers to Mars, but he says it could easily land on the moon too.

What is Elon Musk’s coronavirus policy?

Musk has acknowledged the dangers of the coronavirus, to be sure, and in mid-March told SpaceX employees in a company-wide email that if they feel sick, “it’s always better to stay home and take care of yourself,” BuzzFeed reported.

Is Elon Musk protesting the government’s pandemic measures?

But Elon Musk is not some guy protesting the government’s pandemic measures by waving signs and shouting at medical workers. He is the head of a company that just got one of the most important space-exploration contracts in decades from the world’s top space agency.