How SpaceX's Historic Rocket Re-Flight Boosts Elon Musk's Mars Plan

[Zorro]

Elon Musk's Mars-colonization vision just got a step closer to reality.

On Thursday (March 30), Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched the SES-10 communications satellite to Earth orbit using a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket whose first stage already had one spaceflight under its belt.

The mission demonstrated the type of technology that could help make Mars settlement economically feasible, Musk said. ['Huge Revolution in Spaceflight': Elon Musk Comments on 1st Reused SpaceX Rocket (Video)]

"There needs to be at least a 100-fold, if not perhaps a 1,000-fold, reduction in the cost per ton to Mars — actually, maybe 10,000-fold," he said Thursday during a postlaunch teleconference with reporters.

http://www.space.com/36300-spacex-rocket-reflight-elon-musk-mars-colony.html

[Jonny Appleseed]

1. This adminstration is so stupid that I bet NASA could start up a Mars program by

pretending that there's oil there.

[Victor_c3]

2. That's a great idea!

We better hurry and get the Martian oil before the Chinese and the Muslims do!!