Video of Full Elon Musk Interview at Code Conference
Video Caption: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Walt Mossberg about his plans to send a one-way rocket to Mars in 2018. He estimates colonists could start arriving on the Red Planet by 2025. Musk also talks about the proliferation of electric vehicle initiatives that compete with his other company, Tesla, and why autonomous cars will become the norm. He says he doesn’t see Google as a competitor, but that “Apple will be more direct.” Plus: Why Musk wants more people to have access to the power of artificial intelligence.
Editor’s Note: Musk said he hopes to launch one of its recovered first stages within 2 to 3 months. He re-iterated his hope to launch the Falcon Heavy by the end of the year.
On Mars, Musk said SpaceX plans to send flights to Mars every 26 months beginning with the 2018 launch window. If everything goes according to plan, the first crew would be launched in 2024 and arrive the following year. He also talked about creating a way to get people to Mars in 3 months with the goal of reducing transit times to 1 month.
Musk said he thought direct democracy — people voting on laws — would be best for Mars. He feels it would be less corrupt than representative democracy. However, he felt it should be easier to repeal existing laws than to make new ones.
Musk plans to unveil his full plan for colonizing the Red Planet at a conference in Mexico in September.
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Can’t wait until his September talk, Finally going to get some juicy details on the BFR & MCT! I’m more excited to hear those plans, then watching the Falcon Heavy launch. lol
NASA’s plans change with every president, So by 2017, when (probably) Trump takes over, he (and congress) will see that Space X already has the falcon Heavy available for launches, and a BFR in the works, that they will immediately cancel the SLS, and use those billions elsewhere.
Trump or Clinton?
Who is most likely to cancel SLS and use those billions else where. And will that else where be for science or for something else?
We have lots of pot holes in our roads that need filling.
You don’t take from NASA’s budget to fill potholes, that’s a completely different bucket of cash.
While I’m pulling for Trump, I also think he is most likely to kill the SLS, it’s very clear to anyone who pays attention in space, that it’s going to be a boondoggle, with very few launches with sky high price tags.
I don’t think anyone running for President is a space buff though.
Interesting talk. But I found Elon’s claims about the transcontinental railroad to be strange. He said that people thought building it was a bad idea because not many people lived in California.
This isn’t really true. There was a lot of interest in building a railroad, particularly after the Mexican Cession of 1848 when the U.S. acquired the territory and the discovery of gold there. Overland routes were long, difficult and dangerous. The alternative of sailing to Central America, crossing over land, then boarding another ship was long and difficult.
The project got delayed in the 1850’s by politics. There were questions about how to fund it and what route should be taken.. North and South disagreed over the route and location of the eastern terminus. It wasn’t until after the outbreak of the Civil War and the departure of the southern states that Congress was able to approve the project in 1862.