Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind the Tesla Motors electric car company and countless other ventures, wants to expand his presence in space. Musk plans to extend his SpaceX company, a company that hopes to put private citizens in space, to build a colony on Mars. The colony would house 80,000 inhabitants, and Musk hopes that he will be able to transport visitors to the colony for $500,000 a person.
Transports of visitors would be initially be limited to 10 people or less, and they would ride to the Red Planet on reusable rockets. The colony itself would be covered with transparent domes, which can be pressurized and possibly support the growth of crops.
If this all sounds like science fiction, it's because it's not far off from it at...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3697414/elon-musk-plans-mars-colony-cost-500000
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