Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon, but now half a century has passed since the last moon landing,” Musk posted on X. He said that this cannot be “our high water mark as a civilisation”. 1. “Humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars and be out there among the stars,” the X owner added

According to Business Insider, Elon Musk said that humanity should have a moon base and cities on Mars. Musk believes that humanity needs to explore space and populate other planets. 

Musk has also said that humanity should have a permanently occupied base on the moon, and then send people to Mars. He also said that it’s disappointing that humanity hasn’t made much progress on the moon since the last moon landing. 

A moon base could provide a platform for scientific research. Some have suggested that a base at a high point on one of the moon’s poles could have permanent sunlight and power. 

However, some say that living on Mars is not feasible. Mars is millions of miles away, and its atmosphere is very thin and made up of carbon dioxide. The average surface temperature is -85°C.

Elon Musk has said that humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars, and be out among the stars. Musk is concerned that it’s been 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing and that humanity hasn’t made much progress since then. He believes that humanity should have a permanent base on the moon and then send people to Mars. 

A moon base could provide a platform for scientific research. Some suggest that a base should be located at a high point on one of the moon’s poles, where it would receive permanent sunlight and power.

Musk has bigger plans for traveling beyond Earth’s orbit. “We should have a base on the moon, like a permanently occupied human base on the moon, and then send people to Mars. Maybe there’s something beyond the space station, but we’ll see,” he had said in the past. The tech billionaire has predicted that SpaceX’s Starship mega rocket can make an uncrewed mission to Mars in three or four years

“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great – and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.”

-Elon Musk

WHY MARS?

At an average distance of 140 million miles, Mars is one of Earth’s closest habitable neighbors. Mars is about half again as far from the Sun as Earth is, so it still has decent sunlight. It is a little cold, but we can warm it up. Its atmosphere is primarily CO2 with some nitrogen and argon and a few other trace elements, which means that we can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere. Gravity on Mars is about 38% of that of Earth, so you would be able to lift heavy things and bound around. Furthermore, the day is remarkably close to that of Earth.

STARSHIP

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable

ON-ORBIT REFILLING

Starship leverages tanker vehicles (essentially the Starship spacecraft minus the windows) to refill the Starship spacecraft in low-Earth orbit prior to departing for Mars. Refilling on-orbit enables the transport of up to 100 tons all the way to Mars. And if the tanker ship has high reuse capability, the primary cost is just that of the oxygen and methane, which is extremely low

Colonization or settlement of Mars is the theoretical human migration and long-term human establishment of Mars. The prospect has garnered interest from public space agencies and private corporations and has been extensively explored in science fiction writing, film, and art

Mars comes closer to Earth more than any other planet save Venus at its nearest—56 million km is the closest distance between Mars and Earth, whereas the closest Venus comes to Earth is 40 million km. Mars comes closest to Earth every other year, around the time of its opposition, when Earth is sweeping between the Sun and Mars. Extra-close oppositions of Mars happen every 15 to 17 years, when we pass between Mars and the Sun around the time of its perihelion (closest point to the Sun in orbit). The minimum distance between Earth and Mars has been declining over the years, and in 2003 the minimum distance was 55.76 million km, nearer than any such encounter in almost 60,000 years (57,617 BC). The record minimum distance between Earth and Mars in 2729 will stand at 55.65 million km. In the year 3818, the record will stand at 55.44 million km, and the distances will continue to decrease for about 24,000 years

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