SpaceX’s 1st crewed Mars mission could
launch as early as 2024
“if we get lucky.”
Company founder and CEO Elon Musk said: that he’s “highly confident” SpaceX
will launch people toward the Red Planet in 2026, adding that the milestone
could come as early as 2024 “if we get lucky.”
“And then we want to try to send an uncrewed vehicle
there in two years,” Musk told Döpfner. (The two-year target intervals are
dictated by orbital dynamics: Earth and Mars align favorably for interplanetary
launches just once every 26 months.)
https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tech/2013/03/elon-musk-die-mars