Musk has said that his personal goal is to eventually enable humans to explore and colonize Mars.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, said in 2007 that his goal was to allow humans to explore and colonize Mars. Last year, he also announced that he would send the first humans to Mars in 2024 via starship spacecraft. Interestingly, a scientist wrote a science fiction novel back in 1953 that predicted a man named Elon would be the leader of the human colonization of Mars.
According to the New York Post, Wernher von Braun, a leading German-born rocket scientist and science fiction author, described a space fantasy about a mission to Mars in his 1953 science fiction novel, Project Mars. One of his characters was named “Elon,” the leader of the post-rule Martian government.
In December 2020, a user, Toby Li, found out about this and tweeted, “Speaking of fate, did you know that Braun’s 1953 book, The Mars Project, mentions a man named Elon who will lead humanity to Mars? Pretty crazy.” Musk also tsked when he learned about it and shared the posting, hilariously writing, “Destiny, destiny, I can’t escape. (Destiny, destiny No escaping that for me)”
The structure of the plan to land on Mars was revealed between 2011 and 2015, and in 2011, Musk said in an interview that he wanted to send humans to Mars within 10-20 years. in late 2012, he said he envisioned a Mars colony of tens of thousands of people, with the colonists arriving no earlier than 2025.
Currently, Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies has developed a series of breakthroughs with its recoverable rocket, and its Falcon-9 rocket successfully sent a manned Dragon spacecraft into space in April, with four astronauts arriving at the International Space Station (ISS). on May 2, the Dragon successfully brought another four astronauts back to Earth from the ISS.
Braun, the author of “The Mars Project,” was a German-American who was the chief designer of the famous V2 rocket in Nazi Germany. He moved to the United States after World War II to serve as the lead designer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space research and development program. While serving as chief of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he led the development of the Saturn V, the launch vehicle for Apollo 4, and the first successful human landing on the moon in July 1969.
Von Braun and the model of the moon landing craft. (Photo credit: Internet)
NASA rates Braun as the greatest rocket scientist of all time. To commemorate his achievements, NASA erected a bust of Braun in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center Administration Building in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 17, 2019.
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