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Elon Musk Would Like People to Hurry Up and Start Dying on the Moon Also. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose prior plan for stellar colonization involved sending people who are not Elon Musk to go die on Mars, thinks this noble endeavor will require a practice round of sending people to die on the Moon first.“Before we get the public real fired up, I think we gotta have a base on the Moon,” Musk told attendees at the International Space Station Research Development Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, per CNBC. That’d be pretty cool and then going beyond that, getting people to Mars.”“Having some permanent presence on another heavenly body, a kind of Moon base, and then getting to Mars and beyond,” he added. Watch Gravity Online Hitfix. That’s the continuance of the dream of Apollo that people are looking for.”Musk probably won’t be sending any of his own people to the Moon, as his Space.

X is squarely focused on sending people to Mars. But constructing a long- term colony on the Moon would be doubtless provide many opportunities to perfect complicated technologies crucial to Musk’s effort, like construction, resource extraction, and long- term life support somewhere other than our own planet. Since the Moon has low gravity and is just hanging out there some 3. Watch Clarkson: The Italian Job Online (2017). That’s good, because figuring out all those technologies will doubtless put many astronauts at risk of fates including but not limited to vacuum exposure, depressurization, freezing, drowning, launch and landing failures, and construction accidents. Space. X does have some more limited lunar ambitions, like launching paying customers on a potentially deadly slingshot tour around the Moon by 2.

While humans haven’t landed on the Moon since 1. Moon talk has been back in vogue lately. Other prominent advocates of building a Moon base include Newt Gingrich, who promised to have a “the first permanent base on the Moon” by the end of his second term while running for president in 2. President Donald Trump (maybe) and the European Space Agency, which wants to build a “Moon Village.” Sen. Ted Cruz, who does support human space exploration, seems kind of terrified of the Moon itself.[CNBC].

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose prior plan for stellar colonization involved sending people who are not Elon Musk to go die on Mars, thinks this noble endeavor will. According to the Post, one of the colleagues returning with her has spent even longer in the aether: Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who has cumulatively spent. Get the latest science news and technology news, read tech reviews and more at ABC News.

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