SpaceX says it will fly a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans Wednesday to land a spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018, an extraordinarily ambitious plan under an very tight timeline. In a statement NASA said it would help.
SpaceX made the announcement on Twitter, saying the landing would “inform its overall Mars architecture.” Musk has said the company hopes later this year to unveil its plan to get humans to the Red Planet by as soon as 2025.
Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who also runs the electric car maker Tesla, founded SpaceX more than 10 years ago with the goal of colonizing Mars.
In a statement, NASA said it is providing technical support for SpaceX’s mission. In exchange, SpaceX would provide “valuable entry, descent and landing data to NASA for our journey to Mars, while providing support to American industry.”
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