Elon Musk Reveals “Game Plan” to Establish a Million-Member Colony on Mars Beginning in 2029

The CEO of SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk, has a lofty objective in mind: sending one million people to Mars. Musk has disclosed that he is currently developing a “game plan” to pull off this audacious accomplishment. Part of Musk’s long-term goal to create a sustainable human presence on the Red Planet is this audacious project. He made reference to developing a localized, self-sustaining ecological system on the Red Planet that could endure without assistance from Earth, but he did not provide a timeframe for the same.

It should be mentioned that Musk has long had a fascination with Mars and has expressed strong opinions on establishing a human colony there. This year, Musk’s business SpaceX intended to make its first human flight to Mars. Elon Musk proposed that 2029 be the year after this plan was postponed to 2026.

Musk said, “We are mapping out a game plan to get a million people to Mars,” in response to a post that asserted SpaceX’s Starship would “take us to Mars.” Civilization can only transcend the Great Filter of a single planet when Mars can endure without Earthly supply ships.

The concept of “The Great Filter” describes how a species, in this instance mankind, has to overcome some obstacle in order to survive, such as nuclear Armageddon or climate change. Elon Musk has previously said that in order to secure our long-term existence, humanity must evolve into a “multi-planet species.”

“We want to be a multi-planet species, not one of those creatures with just one planet. Almost fifty years have passed since the last time humanity visited the moon. That is insufficient time; we must return and establish a permanent facility there, ideally a large, continuously manned lunar outpost. In 2021, he had said, “And then build a city on Mars to become a spacefaring civilization, a multi-planet species.”

On Monday, February 12, Musk responded to yet another post, expressing his fascination in Mars. The millionaire and his son X were featured in the post that was uploaded on the microblogging platform. The description for the photo said, “The greatest joy in life is having kids and spending time with them.” Musk replied, “But then I started thinking about Mars,” in a letter.