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Musk Lays Out Mars Ambitions

Pat Host

Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

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Musk Lays Out Mars Ambitions

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk speaks during an April 25, 2014, press conference in Washington. Photo: SpaceX.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) founder Elon Musk is aiming for a $200,000 per person price tag for getting to Mars, he said Tuesday during an unveiling of his plan to establish a colony on the “red planet.”During a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) convention in Mexico, Musk estimated it would cost roughly $10 billion per person to get to Mars using traditional propulsion methods. Musk justified his estimate by using Apollo cost estimates, saying it cost the…

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