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What an incredibly risky proposition. Imagine getting to Mars and finding out they can't produce enough methane for the return trip? That's assuming they could even survive the 6 month trip in the first place.

Before we talk about putting people on Mars we have a lot of preliminary exploration and fact finding to do.
 

Doomsday

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What an incredibly risky proposition. Imagine getting to Mars and finding out they can't produce enough methane for the return trip? That's assuming they could even survive the 6 month trip in the first place.

Before we talk about putting people on Mars we have a lot of preliminary exploration and fact finding to do.
Yes these are unmanned missions initially.
 

dbair1967

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What an incredibly risky proposition. Imagine getting to Mars and finding out they can't produce enough methane for the return trip? That's assuming they could even survive the 6 month trip in the first place.

Before we talk about putting people on Mars we have a lot of preliminary exploration and fact finding to do.
I think most people (if not 100%) who go ultimately know its a one way trip
 

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It probably won't happen in our lifetime or Musk's. After 8 starship launches, starship struggles to stay in orbit. where the last two completely exploded. It's odd that he accomplished the hardest part the catch of a rocket. But Starship itself has serious design flaws. My guess 20 to 30 years away from Mars
 
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