Elon Musk's Colonization of MARS SPACE X Mission REVEALED! [Mars City Colony by 2050]

There are many troubles in the world, of course, and these are important, and we need to solve them. But we also need things that make us excited to be alive. When you hear the name Elon Musk, some synonymous terms that come instantly in your mind are millionaire, Tesla, and of course Mars. If you are unaware of the last one, which would happen if you were most likely living under a rock or something, let me tell you. The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has a grand plan for getting humanity out of the setting off to the moon, Mars, and even further reaches of the solar system. Musk has regularly estimated that humans could establish a city on Mars as early as 2050. It is one of the most ambitious initiatives taken by any non-government organization. And one of the costliest too. Mars 1 estimates the cost of bringing the first four people to Mars at $6 billion. And how is he going to do all of that? The answer is SpaceX. In this video, we are going to tell you about SpaceX and Elon's road to their dream. Musk launched his first company, Zip2 Corporation, in 1995 with his brother, an online city guide to aid businesses to get online. In 1999, they sold the company and Elon made $22 million. He used that money to co-found X.com, an online banking service. X.com merged with a rival and became PayPal. eBay bought PayPal in 2002, and Musk made $1.8 billion from the deal. Then Musk turned his attention to his new space exploration company, SpaceX, after leaving PayPal. Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 intending to build spacecraft for commercial space travel. SpaceX is a private American aerospace manufacturer that is based in California. Musk was frustrated that NASA wasn't doing more to get people to the red planet, and concerned that a backup plan for humanity wasn't being developed. It was and still isn't something that world governments attempted, or are attempting, in part because of the unfathomable price tag such a mission will entail. If there's something terrible that happens on Earth, either made by humans or natural, we want to have, like, life insurance for life as a whole, according to Elon. And that insurance is Mars. Going to Mars is expensive. It requires all sorts of costly equipment that doesn't currently exist, so that equipment has to be built, of course. So the first obstacle that the SpaceX program faced was obviously the cost, and it demands lots of investment funding continually. Musk initially had the idea of sending a greenhouse to Mars named the Mars Oasis, but after realizing the cost was too high, Musk started a spaceflight company instead called Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX. It acquired the goal to build affordable rockets and enable the colonization of Mars, and to reduce space transportation costs. So it became more about developing rocket technology for fulfilling its future aim. SpaceX will be working on the next stage of Starship tests. This year's tests cover the booster, as well as high-altitude, high-velocity flights. They would try to launch a full Big Falcon rocket, or BFR, and get a spaceship into orbit. The Starship is set to embark on its first commercial flight by this period. The Starship's first voyage could see it send a commercial satellite into space for one of three telecom firms. Musk has said his aspirational timeline has 2022 as the date for the launch of the first Big Falcon spaceship mission to Mars. According to him, at least two unmanned ships could make their way to Mars. Each ship would first fly into orbit around Earth, which would use up most of its fuel. Then several other tanker spaceships would launch to fill the vehicle with enough fuel to reach Mars. The first Big Falcon spaceship will be expected to land on Mars in 2022 to 2023. This is the year when SpaceX is expected to launch the first people with BFR and send them around the moon. Musk introduced the world to SpaceX's first space tourist hopeful, Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire who is paying SpaceX an undisclosed sum to be the first passenger aboard the BFR. Maezawa purchased all the seats on the vehicle's spaceship and plans to pick six to eight artists from a variety of disciplines to take the roughly week-long trip around the moon with him in 2023. This is a crucial mission for the whole SpaceX program as it would be the ultimate proof that the BFR works. This is the earliest point at which Musk thinks a Mars colony could take shape. The CEO has predicted a time frame of seven to ten years before the first bases take shape. This will expand on the work left behind by the first humans. These first spaceships would most likely serve as homes for astronauts and it wouldn't be the most comfortable setup, but it might reduce mission complexity by eliminating the need to immediately build Mars habitats. The larger cities would offer habitats, greenhouses, life support, and enable new experiments that help to answer some of the big questions about life on Mars. 2028 When someone asked Musk on Twitter how long it'd take to build the first permanent Martian base, something he referred to as Mars Base Alpha, Musk said, probably 2028. From that point on, a colony could begin to form according to Musk. It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops. All of the sort of fundamentals without which you cannot survive, said Musk. 2050 This timeline has been speculative from the start, but at this point, the milestones start bordering on fantasy. Elon Musk is still working towards such an ambitious timeline. An even more ambitious one, in fact. One of Musk's Twitter followers asked, so a million people on Mars by 2050? The billionaire responded simply, yes. Musk explained on Twitter that the company could use ten orbital synchronizations to complete a city by the year 2050. Once, the SpaceX boss was asked to estimate the total cost of a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. According to Musk, the figure rests somewhere in the ballpark of about $100 billion to $10 trillion. Justifying the exorbitant price tag, Elon said $100 billion would be the absolute minimum, considering the cost of shipping payloads to Mars. That is a lot of money. We all know that colonizing Mars sounds like a far-fetched science fiction thing, but if all things go well, it is a plausible thing according to NASA and the scientists. But it is a long process, and even Elon knows that. I'll probably be dead before Mars becomes self-sustaining, but I'd like to at least be around to see a bunch of ships land on Mars, said Musk. So, that is all we got about the Mars colonization plans. Hope you guys enjoyed the video and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more videos like this.