Boy, Houston the beauty of this place is absolutely incredible.
I have never seen, I j...
all I can say is spectacular and I know y'all are sick of that word but...
it ... my vocabulary is so limited.
The obvious next step, after Apollo, was to send people to Mars...
and we didn't send anyone after that to the Moon or Mars or anything.
If you'd asked people in 1969 what would 2013 look like they would have said
there'll be a base on the moon, we would have least sent some people to Mars
A groundbreaking discovery could mean future human colonies on Mars are
possible scientists say a huge lake of salty water appears to be buried beneath
the surface of the Red Planet; many scientists hope the discovery means
Mars has other hidden bodies of water.
So there's oceans of water, I mean the topsoil is full of water
on Mars. Water is hydrogen and oxygen; oxygen to breathe,
hydrogen and oxygen makes fuel, so that's a huge resource.
Mars was once warm wet planet.
It had liquid water on it surface for more than a billion years,
so if the theory is correct that life is a natural development from chemistry
life should have appeared on Mars, even if it subsequently went extinct.
And if we can go to Mars, and find fossils of past life, we'll have proven
the development of life is a general phenomenon in the universe
Creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars would be the greatest adventure
ever. Ever in human history.
Right now you cannot go to Mars for infinite money.
We have to figure out how to improve the cost by five million percent.
And it sounds like virtually impossible but I think there ways to do it
There are places on Mars that you could just about have liquid water.
It can be 20 degrees, Celsius.
Warmer than Minnesota! So there are places where it's not
horrendous on Mars.
There are American heroes who don't like this idea. Neil Armstrong,
Gene Cernan have both testified against commercial spaceflight,
and I wonder what you think of that.
I was very sad to see that... because those guys are yeah...
those guys are heroes of mine so it's really tough.
The critical breakthrough that's necessary is a rapidly reusable orbital rocket
Humanity landing on the moon was maybe the greatest thing ever.
So I can't believe we're launching from that pad
The Holy Grail is 100% affordable usability you don't have to spend like a
gazillion dollars refurbishing it.
We will get that Holy Grail with the Starship that were working on now.
The Raptor engine will be the highest thrust to weight engine
of any engine of any kind ever made.
Yes!!!
Oooooh that's gonna be humans landing on Mars one day, look at that thing!
At least 100 people per trip is the right order of magnitude in order to
reduce the cost per person.
Send the spaceship up to orbit, you retank it, or refill it.
It travels to Mars, lands on Mars.
You can use solar power to extract Co2 from theatmosphere,
combine it with water, and produce fuel and oxygen for the rocket.
This is a dangerous mission. It's definitely dangerous.
we're gonna look back at 2020 as the year that everything changed
cause this is the beginning of that infrastructure, that private sector commercial
infrastructure, and ability to actually get it done...
as long as we don't screw it up.