SpaceX employees are working on plans for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits.
SpaceX employees are working on plans for a Martian city, including dome habitats, spacesuits and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth.
“There’s high urgency to making life multi-planetary,” he said, according to a publicly posted video of his remarks. “We’ve got to do it while civilisation is so strong.” The Boring Company, a private tunnelling venture founded by Mr Musk, was started in part to ready equipment to burrow under Mars’ surface, two of the people said. Mr Musk has told people that he bought X, the social media platform, partly to help test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars. He has also said that he envisions residents on the planet will drive a version of the steel-panelled Cybertrucks made by Tesla, his electric vehicle company.
The Times interviewed more than 20 people close to Mr Musk and SpaceX about the plans for a Martian city and reviewed internal documents, e-mails, social media posts and legal documents. Many of the people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had signed nondisclosure agreements. To reach Mars, SpaceX has built Starship, a nearly 122m reusable rocket. Starship’s immediate purpose is to take Nasa astronauts to the Moon, though it might later ferry residents to Mars and could also act as a small space station.
By 2023, the latest versions of Starship had been built at Starbase, a SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas. In June, Starship successfully returned from a test flight to space for the first time.
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