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Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
imageWill it be only a few decades before Mars tourism is a reality?SpaceX, CC BY

Elon Musk has a plan, and it’s about as audacious as they come. Not content with living on our pale blue dot, Musk and his company SpaceX want to colonize Mars, fast. They say they’ll send a duo of supply ships to the red planet within five years. By 2024,...

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