Elon Musk is about to reveal SpaceX's big plan for settling Mars: Watch it live
 

Elon Musk is about to reveal SpaceX's big plan for settling Mars: Watch it live
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Alright, space fans, get ready.*

On Tuesday, during a much-heralded speech, SpaceX founder Elon Musk is expected to unveil his company's detailed plans for getting humans to Mars.

Called "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species," the speech at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Mexico is likely to delve into the technical challenges that SpaceX, national space agencies and rival private companies will need to overcome in order to establish a human settlement on Mars.

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"The technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for colonizing the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead," the IAC's description of the talk reads. Read more...

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