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#HOTELMARS: One million colonists on Mars via SpaceX. Eric Berger, Ars Technica. David Livingston, SpaceShw.com

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#HOTELMARS: One million colonists on Mars via SpaceX. Eric Berger, Ars Technica. David Livingston, SpaceShw.com
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-another-mars-speech-this-time-the-vision-seems-tangible/

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0:00.0

This is the space show.

0:05.0

This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:08.0

Hotel Mars. Episode and Dr. Livingston is here.

0:12.0

He is the space show Dr. Livingston is here, he is the space show, Dr. Space himself.

0:16.0

However, we go to a vision that is available if you read Arse Technica, Eric Berger.

0:23.0

Vision is Elon Musk, but it must be shaped by facts and illustrated,

0:28.0

and the Arse Technica has done that for us.

0:31.0

The vision is Mars. That has been consistent with Mr. Mus since the beginning and Mars is now

0:38.4

imaginable before it was a bridge too far from me but thanks to Eric's most recent reporting of the

0:45.8

musk Mars press release press remarks it begins to be something we can add up how much tonnage to low-Earth orbit, how much tonnage to the moon,

0:58.0

much tonnage to Mars, how frequently, given that Mars only opens its window every two years.

1:04.0

Erica, very good evening to you.

1:06.0

Thank you for joining your article is inspiring.

1:09.0

So I want to start right in front of us.

1:12.0

We're waiting for the May launch of Starship

1:15.3

amounts super heavy. What is it that Mr. Musk wants to achieve in this launch?

1:19.9

Good evening to you. Well good evening we're still in the very much in the test flight phase of

1:25.1

Starship, this very large experimental vehicle, but the goal with this next flight

1:30.5

would be to take the first stage, this is the massive boost stage and it has 33

1:35.9

rocket engines and make a controlled landing in the ocean. They got fairly close to that last time,

1:42.0

the last test flight in March.

1:45.0

So they're making progress there.

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