In 2016, Musk introduced plans to construct a settlement on Mars and mentioned that he hoped to make people a multiplanetary species.The long-term purpose of his firm SpaceX has been to design rockets and spacecraft that may land and take-off from the floor of different planets.The corporate just lately carried out a profitable orbital insertion of Starship, the vessel that may take people again to the Moon and past.On the newest launch, SpaceX mentioned that sooner or later, Starship would make many journeys taking supplies and tools to Mars to begin a metropolis.Musk has mentioned that he believes Mars could possibly be a “back-up drive” for humanity within the occasion of catastrophic world warming, an asteroid strike or a nuclear winter, and believes that the planet could possibly be warmed by nuclear weapons.Lord Rees mentioned: “He has performed a significantly better job than the massive conglomerates that used to work for Nasa in producing environment friendly rockets, which could be reused, and that may make it cheaper to truly ship stuff into area and extra possible to have some engineering performed in area and even photo voltaic power gathered from area.“My line on human area flight is that it shouldn’t be funded publicly, definitely not by authorities businesses as a result of they’ve received to be very security aware and that makes it very costly.“Robots can do all the sensible issues, assembling massive buildings in area and exploring the floor of Mars and all that. If people wish to fly into area as an journey, then maybe they are often supported by sponsorship or the billionaires.“We all know that Messrs Musk and Bezos are spending billions on area exploration they usually might maybe launch the form of folks, adventurers ready to just accept a really excessive threat and subsequently be launched far more cheaply.“So my line is that robots ought to do all the sensible issues and solely individuals who actually have a excessive urge for food for threat must be going into area, and they need to be privately funded, not by the remainder of us.”