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Impact Of Spacex's Mars Colonization On Mars

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SpaceX’s Mars Colonization Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most well known speech, titled “I Have a Dream,” is well known for its powerful words, and incredible message. Elon Musk has a dream too. His dream was getting people colonized on Mars, and now, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company, plans on getting people colonized on Mars, and they are doing it with an insane plan, using the revolutionary ITS booster with new, more powerful engines, and completely changing the space industry, by obliterating the cost to get to space. The way SpaceX plans on getting people to Mars, is by using the ITS (Interplanetary Transport System), A refueling station that will launch up into space, and refuel any ships going to Mars. Also, SpaceX wants to send “1000 ships at every opportunity,” (Wall). Once the ITS is fully up and running, the goal is to send “single crewed spacecraft to set up a "rudimentary" base and complete the propellant tank. After that, he said, he would try to "double the number of flights with each Earth-Mars orbital rendezvous, which …show more content…

Right now, the cost to get one person to Mars is estimated at being 10 billion dollars, however Elon Musk has said that, “‘the ITS could lower that ticket price to $200,000, and perhaps all the way down to $100,000.’” The total price that SpaceX wants to spend is $10 billion on their Mars colonization efforts (Wall). That means you could buy a ticket to Mars for about the same price as a house. Along with the low price to get to Mars, there’s a very low price to get back to Earth if someone would want to. This is accomplished by a fuel plant being placed on Mars. The fuel plant makes fuel using Mars’ atmosphere (Foust). This fuel plant would be used to get people off of Mars if needed, however, the fuel does take a long time to make. The fuel is created by taking carbon dioxide from Mars’ atmosphere and mixing it with oxygen and hydrogen, to create

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