![]() Musk has been thinking about what his colonist-carrying spacecraft would need, whatever it ends up being. When asked by what vehicle would be used, he said, "I think you just land the entire thing."Īsked if the "entire thing" is the huge new reusable rocket - which is rumored to bear the acronymic name MCT, short for Mass Cargo Transport or Mars Colony Transport - Musk said, "Maybe." ![]() Musk also ruled out SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which the company is developing to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit, as the spacecraft that would land colonists on the Red Planet. In the beginning you won’t have cyclers." "You have to have propellant to keep things aligned as orbits aren’t in the same plane. "Probably not a Mars cycler the thing with the cyclers is, you need a lot of them," Musk told. ![]() ![]() Musk’s architecture for this human Mars exploration effort does not employ cyclers, reusable spacecraft that would travel back and forth constantly between the Red Planet and Earth - at least not at first As the Mars colony became more self sufficient, the big rocket would start to transport more people and fewer supplies and equipment. The Red Planet pioneers would also take construction materials to build transparent domes, which when pressurized with Mars’ atmospheric CO2 could grow Earth crops in Martian soil. ![]()
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