With SpaceX's Starship as the spacecraft of choice, Elon Musk plans to be the world's commercial space transport service in the future, taking people with less than $1 million in costs to a city on Mars. The SpaceX CEO claims the Spaceship is the best-suited vessel to fly with human travelers to the Red Planet for many months.
Using the groundbreaking Starship line-up, the Californian aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services, SpaceX, will soon introduce humans to space especially on the planet right next to Earth. In a report from INC.com, Elon Musk aims to cut off 99 percent off the price of space travel.
Elon Musk: Future Space Flight Prices Will Be Cheaper
The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, took his space travel dreams and outrageous plan to be the first resident and leader of Mars to Twitter. Musk replied in a thread to Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut), who compiled all Soviet rocket engines, agreeing to the ship part and expressing the same fascination.
The most amazing thing about rocket engines is that they *sometimes* don’t blow up! The amount of power going through them boggles the mind. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2020
The thread went on until another Twitter user questioned if SpaceX's Starship will manage to charge less than $1.5 million for the company's single space launch. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) reveals the petrol alone will already be $500 thousand, and the rest will be for the marginal cost of delivery.
Yeah, looks like marginal cost of launch will be less than $1M for more than 100 tons to orbit, so it’s mostly about fixed costs divided by launches per year — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2020
The amount would now cover more than 100 tons in orbit, and if there were to be commercial space transport, it would be the estimated price. Another Twitter user, though, shares his curiosity about the future of the SpaceX Starship.
Elon Musk: SpaceX Plans To Have a Multiplanetary Life; Next Destination City on Mars
Twitter user Peter Hague (@peterrhague) questions Elon Musk about the space industry's biggest unanswered question.' The issue relates to the prospect of discovering space in the next ten years. Musk's tweet was quoted by the Twitter consumer, wondering what to do with the details.
It’s designed to make life multiplanetary, otherwise extreme overkill for mere Earth sector activity!
Starship fleet mass to orbit per year will be more than 1000 times all current Earth rockets combined, including Falcon. Necessary, for a city on Mars. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2020
Life is planned to be multi-planetary, the SpaceX CEO responded, and SpaceX will be the hub of the potential probability. According to Elon Musk, there would be a huge challenge awaiting the venture, however, and that would be the mass to orbit each year.
Elon Musk even teases a town on Mars, something that the CEO originally pointed to as voicing his curiosity in The Red Planet in one of his comments. In addition, Elon Musk's SpaceX is now the launch partner and maker of NASA's Commercial Crew spacecraft, one of the leading commercial space transport projects in the immediate future.
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