Musk said on Monday his mission for Mars is for it to one day “grow by itself if the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, whether that is because civilization died with a bang or a whimper.”
“If the resupply ships are necessary for Mars to survive, then we have not created life insurance. We’ve not created life insurance for life collectively.”
“So that’s the key point in the future where [the] destiny of life, as we know it, will forever be affected, is when Mars becomes self-sustaining.”
President Trump’s approval of a significant change in NASA’s financial objectives, including the biggest budget decrease in the agency’s history, was the first step towards assisting Musk in achieving this ambitious objective.
The $6 billion that would have funded research, ISS operations, and upcoming missions, like as the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, was cut by the Trump administration on May 1.
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The goal of that project, which has already cost NASA billions, was to return samples gathered by the Martian rovers to Earth for analysis.
However, the reduction will enable NASA to invest more than $1 billion in manned space missions, guaranteeing ‘that America’s human space exploration endeavours remain unrivalled, innovative, and efficient.’
