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Elon Musk is goed in het aanwakkeren van enthousiasme bij millennials, dat kan ik alleen maar toejuichen. Echter, 100 passagiers naar Mars in 2024... euh hallo

Zou heel heel straf zijn. Heeft Musk dat echt gezegd? Bron?
Passagiers naar de maan, ttz rond de maan vliegen OK. Maar Mars?

Ik vind daar niets van op de SpaceX site, enkel een ploeg getrainde mensen of "crew":

https://www.spacex.com/mars

MISSIONS TO MARS
Our aspirational goal is to send our first cargo mission to Mars in 2022. The objectives for the first mission will be to confirm water resources, identify hazards, and put in place initial power, mining, and life support infrastructure. A second mission, with both cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024, with primary objectives of building a propellant depot and preparing for future crew flights. The ships from these initial missions will also serve as the beginnings of the first Mars base, from which we can build a thriving city and eventually a self-sustaining civilization on Mars.

Ik ben overigens geen millennial, de kleinkinderen wel.

Wat Musk wel gezegd heeft is dat de eerste bemande Marsvlucht "voor passagiers" dodelijk kan aflopen:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features...ngers-will-die

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk says his company SpaceX is close to sending passengers on test flights to Mars, but with a catch: the trip will likely be deadly.

Voor diegenen die het risico willen nemen? (zoals in het verleden ook)

Boulevardgazet oppert hier iets van Musk dat het binnen 10 jaar kan zijn:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/551909...o-get-to-mars/

Elon Musk believes humans landing on Mars could happen within the next ten years

18th September 2018

There is an immense distance between Earth and Mars, which means any trip to the red planet will take a very long time.

It's made more complicated by the fact the distance is constantly changing as the two planets rotate around the sun.

The closest the Earth and Mars would ever be is a distance of 33.9million miles – that's 9,800 times the distance between London and New York.

That's really rare though: the more useful distance is the average, which is 140million miles.

Scientists on Earth have already launched a whole bunch of spacecraft to (or near) Mars, so we have a rough idea of how long it takes with current technology.

Historically, the trip has taken anywhere from 128 to 333 days - admittedly a huge length of time for humans to be on board a cramped spacecraft.