Elon Musk said SpaceX will land humans on Mars with its Starship rocket in 10 years' time, in the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n
During an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast released on Tuesday, Fridman asked Musk when he thinks SpaceX will land human beings on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n
After a 20-second pause, the billionaire replied: \"Best case is about five years, worst case 10 years.\"<\/p>\n
Musk told Fridman that the determining factors included \"engineering the vehicle,\" adding that \"Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket that's ever been made.\"<\/p>\n
\"The fundamental optimization of Starship is minimizing the cost per ton to orbit and ultimately cost per ton to the surface of Mars,\" Musk told Fridman on the podcast.<\/p>\n
Currently, nobody can fly to Mars for one trillion dollars, Musk told Fridman. \"No amount of money can get you a ticket to Mars,\" he said on the podcast.<\/p>\n
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has forecasted various dates for his company reaching and landing on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n
Musk said in an interview on the audio app Clubhouse in February that it will take \"five and a half years\" before a crewed mission of SpaceX's Starship rocket could land on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n
Musk tweeted in March that his aerospace company would land its Starship rockets on Mars \"well before\" 2030.<\/p>\n
Experts previously told Insider that it could take longer than he's predicting if things don't go exactly to plan during the three remaining launch opportunities before 2026.<\/p>\n
Musk eventually plans to build1,000 Starship rockets and launch three of them a day to fly one million people to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n
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