Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is quite ambitious and does a lot of innovative things. Many people know Musk with Tesla electric cars, but the businessman does much more. According to a recent tweet from Musk, SpaceX could land an interstellar spacecraft on Mars by 2030. According to him, landing is not a problem. However, making Mars Base Alpha Mars Base self-sustaining is a real challenge.
According to reports, about a week ago, the European Space Agency announced that it would launch a project to study "future space solutions." The agency will give three companies (ArianeGroup, Avio and Rocket Factory Augsburg) $600 each to study competing launch systems after 000.
The European Space Agency is doing this to compete with Musk's SpaceX. SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rocket could dramatically lower the price of launching large commercial satellites. Not only that, Europe is also lagging behind SpaceX in other important areas, such as manned space missions. Even by 2030, the European Space Agency will have a tough task of keeping up with SpaceX.
Elon Musk wants to build a country on Mars
According to previous reports, Elon Musk wants to create a "country" on Mars. He is also the CEO of SpaceX and is already thinking about how people can live on alien planets. Musk is not planning a two-way trip to Mars. According to reports, the ultimate dream is to have a permanent base on Mars. However, Musa will have to overcome some challenges before he can achieve this dream. Here is Musk's proposal for a control system on Mars
"With regard to services provided on Mars, services provided to Mars by interstellar spacecraft or other colonial spacecraft, all parties must recognize that Mars is a free planet and no government of Earth has the right to claim sovereignty over Mars or demand from his sovereignty. Therefore, when a dispute arises on Mars, it will be resolved on the principle of autonomy based on good faith.”
This is not the first time Musk has discussed government procedures on Mars. Here's what Musk said at the SXSW conference a few years ago
"Most likely, the government of Mars will be formed in a directly democratic form. People will vote directly on issues rather than making decisions through representative government. I think it can be better because direct democracy has a much lower chance of corruption than representative democracy."
