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Here's how Elon Musk's giant new rocket system might land people on Mars

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Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million people in an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.

To that end, on Tuesday afternoon during a keynote talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk will unveil his ambitious plans to establish a human settlement on the red planet.

But before the event, which is broadcasting live on YouTube, SpaceX revealed a new video of its new Interplanetary Transport System (ITS).

Based on that clip, here's how Musk's ambitious plan to launch dozens of people at a time to the red planet might work.

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First, passengers load into a giant spaceship on top of the ITS.



Musk has said on Twitter that the ITS is 12 meters (39 feet) wide and 122 meters (400 feet) tall.

Source: Twitter



The giant ITS will launch from a futuristic-looking version of NASA's Cape Canaveral, Florida, launchpad 39A — the same one used by Apollo 11 astronauts to get to the moon.



See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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