Get to Mars
Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starship and the road to colonizing Mars.
Deep space · approach
The red planet
225 million kilometres out — the next place humans will stand.
2020sRobotic scouts
Rovers read the ground
Mapping the terrain, hunting water ice, scouting the first landing sites.
Missions →2030sFirst crewed landing
Starship touches down
A hundred tonnes of cargo and the first footprints in the regolith.
Starship →2040sFirst base
Pressurised domes
Power, water, air and shelter — the first permanent settlement.
Colonization →Next centuryTerraformed
A living world
Thicker air, liquid water, green valleys — a second Earth.
Terraforming →SCROLL TO DESCEND