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As Curiosity, the US$2.5 billion Mini Cooper-sized Mars rover, touched down on the Red Planet on August 3rd, 2012, Elon Musk was already planning the next logical step - sending humans there. And, as with all of Musk’s space plans, his goal wasn’t short on ambition; he wasn’t just interested in ferrying people to Mars, but making it possible for people to live there … permanently.
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This is at or above the capability of the Delta IV Heavy, which is the largest launch vehicle in NASA’s stable; SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, when ready, will be able to launch 7,200 kilograms to Mars with room to spare
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2This may be reassuring to the contestants, since the landing sequence will already have been successfully performed eight times by the identical, unmanned capsules.
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Seedhouse, E. (2013). Red Dragon. In: SpaceX. Other Springer-Praxis books of related interest by Erik Seedhoose. Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5514-1_8
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