Humanity will go to Mars ‘in this decade’, SpaceX president predicts
Reported by Mike Wall
A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think. Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet’s surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said recently. “I think it will be in this decade, yes. People on the Moon sooner,” Shotwell said. “I think we need to get a large delivery to the surface of Mars, and then people will start thinking harder about it,” she added. “Then I think within five or six years, people will see that that will be a real place to go.”