Elon Musk Would Like People to Hurry Up and Start Dying on the Moon Also. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose prior plan for stellar colonization involved sending people who are not Elon Musk to go die on Mars, thinks this noble endeavor will require a practice round of sending people to die on the Moon first. Before we get the public real fired up, I think we gotta have a base on the Moon, Musk told attendees at the International Space Station Research Development Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, per CNBC. Thatd be pretty cool and then going beyond that, getting people to Mars. Watch She Wolf Rising Online Fandango. Having some permanent presence on another heavenly body, a kind of Moon base, and then getting to Mars and beyond, he added. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose prior plan for stellar colonization involved sending people who are not Elon Musk to go die on Mars, thinks this noble endeavor will. Thats the continuance of the dream of Apollo that people are looking for. Musk probably wont be sending any of his own people to the Moon, as his Space. X is squarely focused on sending people to Mars. Happy End Movie Watch Online. But constructing a long term colony on the Moon would be doubtless provide many opportunities to perfect complicated technologies crucial to Musks effort, like construction, resource extraction, and long term life support somewhere other than our own planet. Since the Moon has low gravity and is just hanging out there some 3. Thats good, because figuring out all those technologies will doubtless put many astronauts at risk of fates including but not limited to vacuum exposure, depressurization, freezing, drowning, launch and landing failures, and construction accidents. Space. X does have some more limited lunar ambitions, like launching paying customers on a potentially deadly slingshot tour around the Moon by 2. While humans havent landed on the Moon since 1. Moon talk has been back in vogue lately. Other prominent advocates of building a Moon base include Newt Gingrich, who promised to have a the first permanent base on the Moon by the end of his second term while running for president in 2. President Donald Trump maybe and the European Space Agency, which wants to build a Moon Village. Sen. Ted Cruz, who does support human space exploration, seems kind of terrified of the Moon itself. CNBC. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. Ah, man, you see that up there The Volkwsagen autonomous concept caterpillar called Sedric Imaging hitting the road in this adorable little guy someday. From G S To Gents Season 2 Free Online. The Future. The phrase guilty pleasure has long outlived its usefulness. If you really like a song or a movie or a TV show, no matter how cheesy the conventional. Get the latest science news and technology news, read tech reviews and more at ABC News.