Elon Musk's New Plan: Travel from New Delhi to Tokyo in 30 Minutes
Elon Musk Mars mission
SpaceX chief Elon Musk’s elaborate plan for a mega-rocket to carry astronauts to Mars may have some down-to-Earth applications.
Humans could travel to Mars as early as 2024 with the aim of building a colony on the red planet, Elon Musk has claimed.
Musk's space exploration company SpaceX has laid out
ambitious plans to establish a base on Mars after it unveiled a
reusable rocket that it said could travel at speeds of up to 27,000
kilometres per hour (16,777 mph).SpaceX said it would be establish a base on the moon and fly two cargo missions to land on the Red Planet in 2022, with the key mission of finding the best source of water - currently mooted as a way to power rockets. The rockets would place power, mining and life-support infrastructure on Mars to support future missions, with four ships set to take people, equipment and supplies to the planet in 2024. The trips would be funded by a range of activities, including launching satellites, servicing the space station and lunar missions
Elon Musk's plan to reduce travel time between major cities
Elon Musk added that the rockets should also cater to Earth inhabitants by reducing the travel between major cities to less than half-an-hour. A trip from Bangkok to Dubai would take 27 minutes, and from Tokyo to Delhi in 30 minutes, according to his calculations.He said that "Once you are out of the atmosphere, it would be as smooth as silk, no turbulence, nothing," ."There's no weather... and you can get to most long-distance places in less than half-an-hour. If we are building this thing to go to the Moon and Mars, then why not go to other places on Earth as well."
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