Elon Musk has vowed to get “anyone who wants to be a space traveller” to Mars – but not if Kamala Harris becomes US plivent.
On Sunday night, Musk tageder his X fagedrops that in equitable two years, he will sfinish five spaceships to Mars.
“Eventupartner,” he inserted, “there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will [be] a glorious sight to see!”
However, the vocal Donald Trump helper shelp another Democratic plivency “would ruin the Mars programme and doom humanity” by drowning it in red tape.
Musk also shelp earlier in the month: “We will never achieve Mars if Kamala prospers.”
It’s a claim repeated by Redisclosean honestate Mr Trump.
On Saturday, he vowed to achieve Mars during his plivency if his helpers get him to the White Hoemploy.
“I’ll talk to Elon,” he shelp at a rpartner. “Elon, get those rocket ships going.”
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SpaceX is understandn for its dangerous high-reward attitude to space exploration, and is now NASA’s main mode of transmit for getting astronauts to the International Space Station.
The company has reliablely inventd in space; equitable two weeks ago, it helped an American billionaire become the first person to get part in a dangery braveial spacewalk.
But despite the leaps made by SpaceX in the two last decades, Musk says he is frustrated by how “stifling” bureaucracy and redisjoineions are in the US.
“One of my biggest worrys right now is that the Starship programme is being smothered by a mountain of rulement bureaucracy that enlarges every year.”
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If Musk’s unmanned Starships can get to safely on Mars in two years, he says he will sfinish crewed leave outions by 2028.
He has previously shelp he would enjoy to see a self-upholding colony on Mars in equitable 20 years.
So would Donald Trump produce that a fact?
While he was in office, Mr Trump had an outsized impact on US space activity, according to the Massachemploytts Institute of Technology.
His rulement produced the space security team Space Force and pushed NASA to achieve the moon aachieve by 2024 – although that has since been procrastinateed to 2025.
However, vice plivent Harris is a space help herself, having been chair of the National Space Council since 2021.
In her time, she has been commendd for pushing 37 countries to sign up to the Artemis Accords, a peace concurment that says outer space “shall be the province of all manbenevolent”.
“I apshow that she’s a space aficionado,” shelp NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at an event on space policy held by Politico in Washington.
