Judge: Elon Musk is able to prove the case promises to colonize Mars – RIA Novosti

13:5328.09.2016

(updated: 13:54 28.09.2016)

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MOSCOW, 28 September — RIA Novosti. American businessman Elon Musk, announced the start of an ambitious program for future colonization of Mars, it is able to prove the announced promises, said RIA Novosti member of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky Andrew Jonas.

the head of the company SpaceX has promised to turn earthlings into “interplanetary species” and for several decades to send to Mars about 1 million people who will build there, “self-sustained” city. According to him, the journey will take two years and the ticket will cost about 100 thousand dollars — like a car Luxury or cheap American home.

“Certainly, it is Grand plans for decades. It is important that to implement these plans offers Elon Musk, who has already proved that space is serious. Currently, he is not just a member of the space market, and I would even say that an ideological leader, so his words are weighty. It is also important that the plans to colonize Mars says the man is young enough, and it is the project of his life: the Mask will have to implement the intentions myself. When these people claim in age, it is clear that they can not survive,” — said the expert.

however, according to him, the considerable part of technologies for launchers and the construction of a colony on Mars is still to be developed and tested.

“Some of them Mask works now: the return landing of the first stage to the platform with the help of the jet is Martian rehearsal. But the main technology is yet to develop, and they are connected with the life and development of man on other planets,” said Jonas.

According to him, “deliver humans to Mars is far more simple than it is to build a hassle-free functioning of the colony there”.

“And most important of all, the Mask is unable to provide funding for the project. He is primarily a businessman, and understands that developing technology for Mars, you can make good money and the Earth. Who will be the leader in these technologies, will earn trillions of dollars. So I believe in the project, as I see it the real sources of the funding,” said the Jonah.