Musk, who has long expressed his desire to take humans to Mars, was recently seen at the White House sporting a “Occupy Mars” t-shirt.
Musk’s statement, “I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,” is on SpaceX’s homepage on the company’s goal of “making humanity multiplanetary.”
Occupy Mars! https://t.co/jHWmXPIPSH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2024
Musk’s announcement of a Mars mission coincides with SpaceX’s fantastic week. In order to replace Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams,
Who have been stranded in space for nine months, SpaceX and NASA launched a crew on Friday that is its route to the International Space Station (ISS).