The head of the American company Spacex Ilon Mask warned that the first people who would fly to Mars should be preparing to die on earth. The statement of the engineer and the businessman, which he made in an interview with the founder of the X Prize Foundation Peter Diamandis, brings Fox Business.
According to the mask, during the mission “you can die, will be inconvenient and, probably, there will be no good meal.” In his opinion, in the invitation to flight to Mars, it should be indicated that “a difficult and dangerous journey will have to come from which you may not return alive.” Mask is confident that volunteers who are waiting for a “great adventure”, the first people on Mars.
In June 2016, the head of Spacex Interviews The Washington Post compared the planned start of colonization of Mars with the development of North America by the British, spoke about the first suicide bombs of this mission and confirmed its intention to send in 2018 to Marsa a unmanned mission at the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
In January of the same year, Mask declared the possibility of a person’s flight for Mars to 2025, emphasizing that nine years is enough to prepare the flight.
In April 2011, the engineer and businessman in an interview with The Wall Street Journal promised to deliver a person to Mars for 10-20 years.