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SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to make trip to Mars as cheap as a house

By | December 30, 2011, 1:33 PM PST

What’s the business model for getting to mars? Make the trip to the red planet cost about the same as a new home, says SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. Here he is at the National Press club, outlining his plan.

Is Elon Musk crazy? Maybe. But he’s also managed to slash the cost of getting cargo into space in half. (As his competitors like to point out, it remains to be seen if his heavy launch rockets can accomplish that at a failure rate comparable to those of existing rockets, however.)

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Christopher Mims was a contributing editor for SmartPlanet from 2011 to 2012.

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Christopher Mims has written for Scientific American, WIRED, Popular Science, Fast Company, Good, Discover, Slate, Technology Review, Nature and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Formerly, he was an editor at Scientific American, Grist and Seed. He is based in Washington, D.C.

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Read the new novel by Mark Ellenbogen-God Shuffled His Feet!! Elon Musk, Tesla and Space X take an active role in saving the world. Humorous, well researched and a tribute to Musk's forward thinking and innovation. Have fun reading as the main characters test drive a Tesla Roadster and Space X develops a MagLev drive for land, see and space travel.
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