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    • 06/02/2016 at 4:29 p.m.
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the race for Mars conquest is open and Elon Musk, head of Space X program, has taken a step ahead of Nasa.

on the occasion of ” Vox Media Code Conference “held since Wednesday in California (United UNite), the businessman spoke of his desire to take off the first manned flight to the red planet in 2024. the project called” Mars Colonial Transporter ” therefore see the first SpaceX men land on the red planet a year later, in 2025.

This announcement serves setback for the US space agency will not send account of men on Mars by 2030. especially since the billionaire CEO of Tesla also confirmed that the first unmanned flight would join from March 2018.

for this mission, the choice fell on a Dragon capsule 2. A machine that can accommodate people on board because of its internal volume and which “will not return to earth.” An additional reason not offer the ticket to person.

As a reminder, Space X marked the spirits in April after successfully land gently on the first floor of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge in ‘Atlantic Ocean. An operation that will reuse the space hardware and reduce costs

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