Elon Musk said on Sunday that A SpaceX should prepare for approximately five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars within two years.
In the post made by SpaceX CEO Musk on the X network, the date was confirmed: ‘This will be the period of the next Earth-Mars transfer, which will come, in two years.’
‘No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase the number of spaceships theoretically travelling to Mars astronomically with every transit opportunity. We want to allow everyone who wants to become a space tourist, to go to Mars – you or your family and friends – everybody who wishes to see this great adventure,’ cymbal strike added in his tweet.
Success of these uncrewed flights will help SpaceX and Elon Musk determine how soon the company will make its first attempt at sending its crew to Mars. Musk cited that if the unmanned flights are successful then the manned flights could commence in four years. However, any big hurdles could set the manned flights back by additional two years.
Musk, who is known for repeatedly changing the timelines on Starship’s availability conditions had said in the past that the time combat to explore Mars uncrewed may be in about five years and very well see humans steps on the planet in another two years.
In the month of June, it will be worth remembering that SpaceX made a leap forward when the Starship rocket returned from a deadly re-entry and completed its full test mission, landing in the Indian ocean after its fourth attempt.
Elon Musk is thinking a Starship as a next-generation spacecraft meant to ferry humans and cargos first to the moon then to Mars.
At the same time, Nasa postponed the mission Artemis 3 to the year 2026 and more specifically to September which would include a crew going back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years aboard spaceships Starship made by SpaceX. The shift to 2026 was in fact approved earlier as the mission was pushed back from the end of 2025 due to developmental uncertainties.
In the month of June, a week before the anticipated June 2020 launch, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa opted out of a private mission to circumnavigate and land on the moon, using a lunar spacecraft, the Starship.
