SpaceX revealed plans to build a city on Mars

SpaceX has announced an ambitious plan to build a city on Mars by putting people on a giant spaceship at a cost of about $ 100,000 for each individual.

Director of US space space transport company SpaceX, Elon Musk on September 27 presented the ambition of a rocket that could bring people to Mars and build a city on it, AFP believe.

"We need to start from an early exploration mission to be able to really build a city," Musk said at an exhibition center in the city of Guadalajara, west of Mexico.

He also showed a fictional video showing the idea of ​​an interplanetary transport system based on the reuse of missiles with an area dedicated to launching them and 1,000 spacecraft in orbit capable of carrying around 100 people per trip.

Spacecraft will contain both restaurants, makeshift accommodations, weightless games and movies."They will bring fun and excitement, not feeling cramped or boring," he said.

SpaceX's aim is towards the price that makes most people want to participate, about 100,000 USD. However, the first flight will inevitably have a high price.

Musk said the plan requires coordination with the community, to build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars.

Director SpaceX presents his bold ambition in Guadalajara, Mexico.(Photo: AP).

SpaceX announced plans to bring the unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars in early 2018, paving the way for a mission to get people out of the Earth by 2024 and to Mars one year later.

Once on Mars and wanting to return to Earth, people are forced to build a rocket-propelled fuel plant to operate the spacecraft.

Experts warn the distance between Earth and Mars is about 225 million kilometers. In order to live there, people must achieve advanced technology levels and huge budget resources.

Earlier, John Logsdon, a former director of the George Washington Institute for Space Policy, did not believe the Musk plan would succeed in 2025. He thought SpaceX's director was too optimistic about his rocket journeys. company in the past.

" In short, it's a cost issue. He's talking about tens of billions of dollars and SpaceX doesn't have the money," Logsdon said.

However, former astronaut Leroy Chiao has a different opinion when he thinks Musk owns "experienced technical and operating experts and SpaceX also profits from satellite launches."

"Elon Musk set an ambitious goal, he may not reach the set time, ready to make them a reality," Chiao said.

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) is studying the long-term effects of flights into space to the human body. NASA has announced plans to bring people to Mars by 2030.

SpaceX is not the only private company with the ambition to bring people to Mars. Blue Origin previously announced a plan to set up a giant rocket called New Glenn to bring people into space, but the company's director said it would take people to Mars that could take several decades. century.

In early April, tens of thousands of people around the world held their breaths waiting for the moment SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully hit the Atlantic. US President Barack Obama also expressed his joy with SpaceX's new success.