SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 25, 2011 @08:02AM from the mars-needs-astronauts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years. From the article: '"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."'"

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Re:Tell me when you can put a man on Mars tomorrow (Score:4, Informative)

by LaissezFaire ( 582924 ) writes: on Monday April 25, 2011 @08:48AM (#35928274) Journal

SpaceX is building rockets, so they are doing things in line with going to Mars.
Space programs take a quite a long time to develop. The average government satellite takes around 12-16 years from development to operation. They have to think 10-20 years out.

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