Tag: Mars Colonization
NASA held a contest to design a habitable 3D-printed home on Mars — here’s what that could look like
NASA has chosen three designs as finalists in its competition for a 3D-printed structure that can be house humans on the moon or Mars.
Elon Musk says he is ‘confident’ people could afford to ‘sell their home on Earth’ and move to Mars on a SpaceX rocket
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the first tickets to Mars may cost about $500,000 but eventually could cost less than $100,000 on his new launch system, Starship.
Elon Musk is making a ‘radical change’ to SpaceX’s monster Mars rocket — and renamed its parts ‘Starship’ and R...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk redesigned the company's reusable Big Falcon Rocket for deep-space travel and renamed its parts "Starship" and "Super Heavy."
Elon Musk says SpaceX is on track to launch people to Mars within 6 years — here’s the full timeline of his plans to colonize the red plan...
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in hopes of colonizing Mars, and the tech mogul is unafraid of sharing his timelines to launch humans to the red planet.
Elon Musk says it’d be ironic if he died on Mars — but thinks ‘the most ironic outcome is the most probable’
Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with his rocket company, SpaceX. He said it'd be ironic if he died there, but perhaps not surprising.
Defectors from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Tesla are developing a remarkable technology called ‘Stargate’ to help colonize other planets
While SpaceX works on giant reusable rockets to reach Mars, other companies are working on technologies to keep colonists alive on the red planet. Relativity Space has made the world's largest metal 3D printer, called Stargate, to print rockets, tools, and other useful objects off-Earth.
Elon Musk usually reveals new details about SpaceX’s plan to colonize Mars at this annual conference. The next one is in 2 weeks, but Musk hasn&...
Elon Musk shared his plans to colonize Mars with his rocket company, SpaceX, at the 2016 and 2017 annual meetings of the International Astronautical Congress. However, organizers of the major spaceflight conference say they don't know if he'll show up this year.
Elon Musk is building a spaceship that’s so ambitious that some experts are calling it ‘science fiction.’ Here’s what SpaceX a...
The SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to blast a tourist around the moon in a new launch system called Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR: a giant spaceship and rocket. A prototype is being built out of carbon-fiber composites, which poses major challenges, according to some aerospace engineering experts.
A top SpaceX engineer has revealed new details — and questions — about the company’s plans to reach Mars in 6 years
Paul Wooster, the principal Mars development engineer at SpaceX, revealed new details about Elon Musk's plan to colonize the red planet — and what it isn't yet planning to work on.
Scientists may have just found a lake of liquid water on Mars
Scientists from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Bologna may have found a lake of liquid water on Mars. Radar data from the European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite suggests the water might lie underneath Mars' polar ice caps.