Author Topic: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"  (Read 18317 times)

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Re: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"
« Reply #20 on: 02/09/2023 12:52 am »
What a bunch of drivel that article is. Seriously, waste and inefficiency? I think she was talking about Starliner not Starship.
 The sky is falling, Musk finally wakes up, BS is so over the top.

 Thank goodness we're alive to see the progress being made by SpaceX. Just imagine if we were counting on Boeing et al then this kind of pessimistic thinking would truly be warranted but we're not.
 

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Re: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"
« Reply #21 on: 02/09/2023 02:43 am »
The 20 years have passed. Now we are waiting for the first orbital test flight of Starship, the vessel that is supposed to take humanity to Mars. Not bad :).

Some delay was expected from the very beginning. In 2017 Musk suggested that the first cargo mission would fly to Mars in '22, followed by the first crew in '24. It does not happening. Most recently he predicted '29 for the latter. Still, not bad :).

However, expecting 2043 for the first boots on the surface would mean a complete failure for the Starship project, as we know it.
Musk's initial schedule for the first cargo and crewed missions to Mars was rather far-fetched, and the fact that waste and inefficiency dogged the Starship program as soon as the first suborbital prototypes of Starship were built and tested probably convinced Musk to revise his tentative timetable for using Starship to flying humans to Mars.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL what a load of crap.
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Re: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"
« Reply #22 on: 02/09/2023 03:17 am »
Taking humanity to the next step (going into space) is transcendent, Musk has given it a great boost, making many of us see it viable today, if Elon had not existed, reaching the current point could have taken several decades more perhaps. As soon as the Starship is functional, the colonization process could already begin, there is already enough robotic technology to build the necessary bases and to carry out the sustainability studies, before a human sets foot on Mars

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Re: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"
« Reply #23 on: 02/09/2023 03:26 am »
The 20 years have passed. Now we are waiting for the first orbital test flight of Starship, the vessel that is supposed to take humanity to Mars. Not bad :).

Some delay was expected from the very beginning. In 2017 Musk suggested that the first cargo mission would fly to Mars in '22, followed by the first crew in '24. It does not happening. Most recently he predicted '29 for the latter. Still, not bad :).

However, expecting 2043 for the first boots on the surface would mean a complete failure for the Starship project, as we know it.
Musk's initial schedule for the first cargo and crewed missions to Mars was rather far-fetched, and the fact that waste and inefficiency dogged the Starship program as soon as the first suborbital prototypes of Starship were built and tested probably convinced Musk to revise his tentative timetable for using Starship to flying humans to Mars.
Paywalled & most likely a clickbaity article (imo any space article written other than Eric Berger, Michael Sheetz, Christian Davenport, Jeff Foust, Spaceflightnow, NSF, Irene Klotz, should be ignored)

(And yes, see Shotwell remark above)
Yeah, and I'd include Marcia Smith of Space Policy Online in there.
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Re: Elon Musk, 6 February 2023: "Mars in 20 years"
« Reply #24 on: 02/09/2023 03:36 am »
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Thread has played out.  We're now into the usual pro/anti The Elon opinions, plus a serving of alien 👽 conspiracies.

Thread trimmed and locked before the non-consensual probing begins.🔒
« Last Edit: 02/09/2023 03:40 am by zubenelgenubi »
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