SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans Sept. 27 to develop a large new launch vehicle and reusable spacecraft for human Mars missions as soon as the mid-2020s ...

SpaceX's first mission to Mars could be less than two years away. The space exploration company -- headed by Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk -- tweeted Wednesday that it plans to put an unmanned ...

On Tuesday (Sept. 27), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's plans for colonizing Mars. SpaceX aims to help establish a permanent, self-sustaining city on the Red Planet using ...

SpaceX said it aims to achieve this through mass-produced, super-heavy-lift launch vehicles and plans to send cargo missions to Mars as early as 2026, with potential human landings in the early 2030s.

3. The large scale manufacture of methane/oxygen bipropellant on the Martian surface from indigenous materials. Here I offer the same praise and the same note of caution as above. The use of in situ ...

This time, it was SpaceX’s turn, with an announcement that went a bit beyond space station rescue missions. Instead, Musk said, the company would launch its first mission to Mars […] ...

Another key ingredient will be ramping up the rate of launches, since a very high frequency will be required for Mars. SpaceX is targeting 20 launches by the end of this year, 30 by next year.

2018 is the very near future. If SpaceX were starting their Mars program today, their deadline would be a total joke. "They’ve said for a long time that they intend to test their Dragon 2 ...

With billionaire Elon Musk at the helm, SpaceX has ambitious plans to colonize the Red Planet in the next decade. Interested? The 80 day trip should only cost about $200,000, according to Musk.

The pitch for those uncrewed Red Dragon missions to Mars included a collaboration with NASA to gather landing data, test communications, and plan for potential contamination from Earth-based microbes.

For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars. Over the last year, he has also ramped up work on what will happen if he gets ...

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 27, 2016 There’s no doubt that Musk knows rockets. He has a clear vision for the types of vehicles he thinks will make a Mars settlement both possible and affordable.