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I would imagine the most complex element is landing on Mars safely at low Gs, or even travelling for years in a spaceship moving through a hostile environment.
by Pfhreak 14y ago
I would imagine the most complex element is landing on Mars safely at low Gs, or even travelling for years in a spaceship moving through a hostile environment. Getting stuff into orbit seems easier to me.
- Kilimanjaro 14y agoHow about coming back? Not in a hundred years. Sorry to be realistic.
- StavrosK 14y agoThere are plenty of people, including Elon, who don't mind not coming back.
- Pfhreak 14y agoMusk isn't interested in bringing people back. (And honestly, neither am I.) People didn't care too much about coming back from the 'New World' back in the day, and we need more of that attitude today.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoLanding on Mars is a more or less solved problem, if you can throw enough mass at the problem. Launching stuff from Earth is also a solved problem, but it's hugely expensive. Landing humans on Mars is well within our technological capability, but because of the cost of launch it would be hugely expensive and nobody's put up the cash yet. The reason SpaceX is in a perfect position here is because they've dropped the cost of space launch dramatically. So if it takes SpaceX fewer billions to get to Mars than it would anyone else then they are poised to get there sooner.