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Paraphrase of Musk's 27 September 2016 presentation, published in New Space in 2017: he put the threshold for a self-sustaining city or civilization on Mars at one million people.
Source / statement date: · Elon Musk, 2016 IAC presentation; 2017 New Space paper, p. 50 (PDF mirror)
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Paraphrase of Musk's 27 September 2016 presentation, published in New Space in 2017: with improvements over time, his proposed transport architecture could bring the cost per ticket to Mars below US$200,000, depending on the mass a traveller takes.
Source / statement date: · Elon Musk, 2016 IAC presentation; 2017 New Space paper, pp. 47–49, 56 (PDF mirror)
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Paraphrase of Musk's 27 September 2016 presentation, published in New Space in 2017: reaching a self-sustaining civilization on Mars could take 40–100 years from the first ship going to Mars.
Source / statement date: · Elon Musk, 2016 IAC presentation; 2017 New Space paper, p. 50 (PDF mirror)