SpaceX Send the Humans to Mars 10-20 Years

United States private company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within the next 10-20 years, said the owner of the company."We probably will put the first man in space in three years," said Elon Musk told the newspaper the Wall Street Journal on Saturday."We will go to Mars, I think ... of the fastest 10-year, no later than 15 to 20 years," he said.SpaceX is one of two leading U.S. private companies in the field of space and has won the auction of U.S. government space agency, NASA, to assist the development of spacecraft to replace
shuttle.California-based company that last year successfully completed the first test sends space capsule into orbit and return to earth."Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and goods to another planet, then it is up to them if want to go there," said Musk, who is also the owner of the company Tesla, developer of electric cars.Space Shuttle Program U.S. is experiencing a decrease this year with the last flight of the aircraft scheduled for Endeavour and Atlantis next week in June, ending the U.S. space flight mission that began on the first shuttle flight in 1981.With the end of the flight program, the U.S. government expects private industry to fill the gap by creating a new generation of spacecraft to move the astronauts into space."The view a future where humans go explore the future star was exciting, and inspiring, and that's what we're trying to help, so realized," said Musk in an interview.


Earlier this month, SpaceX reveal what Musk called the most powerful rocket in the world, "Falcon Heavy", which will perform flight demonstrations in late 2012.Launcher was designed to send a satellite or spacecraft weighing more than 53 metric tons - more than twice the capacity of the space shuttle or a launcher "Delta IV Heavy."SpaceX, short for "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation", is one of two private companies which NASA contract to send goods to the International Space Station (ISS).Musk, a South African citizen who got his wealth from the Internet, creating SpaceX in 2002.