Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2020. Susan Walsh\/AP hide caption <\/p>\n
Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2020.<\/p>\n
A crewed mission to Mars could happen in 2029, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hints.<\/p>\n
A tweet on Monday comparing the moon landing to a future Mars landing attached a photo of the moon landing dated 1969, on top of an image of an envisioned Mars landing, labeled \"20 --.\" The tweet, from Space_Hub, an account that posts about space and astronomy, read \"What's your guess\" and tagged Musk.<\/p>\n
Two days after the tweet, Musk replied \"2029.\"<\/p>\n
Musk has long seen a visit to Mars as a goal. In 2016, he said he wanted to build a rocket capable of taking people to Mars and supporting a permanent city on the planet.<\/p>\n
\"It's something we can do in our lifetimes,\" he told an audience of 100,000 watchers at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. \"You could go.\"<\/p>\n
But Musk's older predictions don't necessarily match up with his latest. In 2016, he told the Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, that getting a \"meaningful number of people\" on Mars was possible \"in about 10 years, maybe sooner, maybe nine years.\"<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a joint Europe-Russia mission to Mars, called ExoMars, was suspended on Thursday due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. This rover mission, which is part of a two-part series, was set to launch in 2022.<\/p>\n
The two-part mission was designed to investigate whether there is or ever was life on Mars.<\/p>\n
\"While recognising the impact on scientific exploration of space, ESA is fully aligned with the sanctions imposed on Russia by its Member States,\" the intergovernmental organization said in a release.<\/p>\n
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