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This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk will provide an update to his 2016 presentation regarding the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.

You can watch the talk live on this page on Thursday, September 28th at 9:30 pm PDT, or Friday, September 29 at 2:00 p.m. ACST.

SpaceX, a Vision worth waiting for




In a composite reel of all major SpaceX launch or landing failures released by SpaceX, a frank look at SpaceX failures gives the impression the space flight is massive challenge thing to do, which indeed it is the case.

However, the real of SpaceX failures, to me at least illustrates, the pain of getting the technology right. If we’re lead to believe a rocket can go up and be reused just as easy, NASA and ULA would have done that long time ago.

In fact launching a 500ton rocket in to space, in what is literally a massive ticking bomb, isn’t simple or easy. Landing it back on the ground or even on the floating barge requires technical skills so far never attempted. SpaceX has done it, and done it numerous times successfully, after delivering its cargo in to Low Earth Orbit.

The hard and perhaps most challenging part lay ahead, in late November, SpaceX will test Falcon Heavy Rocket using re-used boosters. If all goes well, SpaceX could start launching Falcon Heavy Rockets in 2018, there are 8 launches agreed so far for this and following year using Falcon Heavy.

First manned mission for SpaceX is slated for late 2018 using also falcon Heavy, this launch will see manned Dragon II lander/spacecraft do near moon mission, two paying customers will experience a trip of their lifetime.

However, this is just the begging of the long journey which will take SpaceX to Mars. Interplanetary Transport System after re-design should see first manned mission to the Red Planet as early as 2030.

To achieve all that, and have a laugh at early start of what is undoubtedly incredible adventure ahead, is humble yet inspiring.

Elon Musk Tour of SpaceX 720p HD

SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk takes us on a tour of the SpaceX Headquarters located in Hawthorne, CA , just outside of Los Angeles. Once a manufacturing site for the 747 aircraft, this 500,000 square foot facility is where SpaceX now designs and builds 80% of the Falcon line. 2010 Tour.

SpaceX 'BFR' Spaceship: Elon Musk Takes You Under the Hood

SpaceX's plan to colonize Mars, explained

Elon Musk gave the biggest talk of his life in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he detailed his plans to set up a self-sustaining colony of 1 million people on Mars. He knows the rockets and spaceships he wants to build, but many questions still need to be answered if he wants to pull off such an ambitious feat. The Verge's Loren Grush breaks down some of the challenges with input from Bill Nye (CEO of The Planetary Society) and Will Pomerantz (VP Special Projects, Virgin Galactic).

Bill Nye on the Remarkable Efficiency of SpaceX


Bill Nye (The Science Guy!) opines on the pros and cons of NASA and SpaceX manufacturing. In a congressional move of either genius or ignorance, the decentralization of NASA facilities has resulted in remarkable resilience... at the expense of efficiency and cost control, that is. Bill closes with some off-the-cuff fantasizing about his own trip into space.

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Transcript:
So SpaceX is a response to the history of space exploration. This is my point of view. So one of the magical things about NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration here in the U.S., is the administration has stayed about the same for, 1958, what is that, 56 years. The reason is Congress had either the ignorance or the genius to put a dozen NASA centers in 13 different places around the US. And when you try to close a NASA center in Congress, people come unglued. You can't close a NASA center. This is how people got to the moon. When John Kennedy was shot, which was an awful thing, any idea to cancel the moon program was squashed. As soon as Kennedy was shot we couldn't not, not go as the expression goes. So humans went to the moon, the space program existed, changed the world in a great way, however, it made things expensive.

When you build rocket engines in Alabama and you get the fuel from Utah and you test them in Mississippi and you then send them to Florida and control all that from Texas, with some drop testing done in Cleveland and all sorts of material science research done in California, some flight tests done in the desert in Arizona, when you do all that you just add cost. When you go to SpaceX, the material, the stainless steel and the aluminum come off the train cars. It goes through the factory like this. We make our tanks. We make our space frame or airframe. We make our rocket engine bells. We hook up all our plumbing. It goes back this way. We do the wiring and it goes back on the train car and goes to either Vandenberg Air Force Base or Cape Canaveral because it's all made in one place. But the way NASA was established in 1958, it's not set up that way and that was good and bad.

So it is to be hoped that SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Space, Blue Origins, that these companies will emerge and lower the cost, especially of taking stuff to low earth orbit. Keep in mind everybody, for all the free market libertarian let's go laissez-faire people, SpaceX has taken at least half a billion dollars, $500 million from NASA because NASA wants to develop this capability. When you buy an Atlas V rocket or a Delta IV rocket those are commercially made gizmos, and so is going to be the Falcon and Falcon Heavy. These are commercial rockets and NASA has gone to great lengths to develop that business. It's all good. It's all good.

I would go to space like that. I applied to be an astronaut four times. I would love to get a view of the earth from space. And right now the price is $200,000, it starts to come down into the 10th of that I could imagine doing it. If you've never jumped out of a plane with a parachute, that is cool. I don't do it full-time but I get it. It's exciting and you do see the world in a new way and you're in the air. Everybody's dream is to be able to fly. You're flying for a few moments. I get it. I can see how people get hooked on that. And I think space exploration would be the same deal.

SpaceX to Mars: Awe-Inspiring Video Shows Vision for Red Planet Exploration




The private spaceflight company has bold goals of reaching the Red Planet with reusable rocketry. In this just released animation, their vision includes a new two stage rocket and a spaceship/habitat that can land on Mars. They also unveil an on-orbit fuel re-supply and possible terraforming. -- Read more on Space.com: