Elon Musk, the creative financial specialist who established Tesla and SpaceX, has long tried to make people into animals that live on various planets. He focused mostly on Mars in his endeavors, but some recent remarks indicate that Musk has aimed way farther than that: Uranus.
The Long-Chased After Dream of Mars
Musk’s interest in Mars is well-known. In a March 2024 X post (formerly Twitter), he said that SpaceX’s Starship rocket will land in Mar,s successfully within five years. Before this, in February 2024, he disclosed plans to take one million people to the Red Planet, indicating his seriousness about making interplanetary settlements real.
Transcending Mars: Targeting Uranus
However much Musk loves Mars, it does not compare with how much he loves Uranus, the seventh planet from our sun. On X, someone wrote, “My dream is to reach Uranus,” and Musk replied: “We want our rocket to reach it indeed; very tricky, though.” He recognizes the challenges associated with such an undertaking but insists on trying anyway, saying, “It’s hard to get there certainly, but we should try.”
Reiterated Pursuits of Mars
His statements repeatedly show us how committed Elon was to settling down on Mars sooner or later. In December 2023, during another X post, he clarified his belief in extraterrestrial life by advocating for lunar bases and cities built on Mars. Two years before this, he wrote an article for some magazine back in August 2022, where he, among other things, talked about why, according to him, human civilization must become space-faring, citing potential earth inhabitability due to natural causes.
Lowering Costs
Another thing is that this guy wants space travel cheapened so that anyone can go explore other planets without worrying about money too much! That’s why SpaceX was started – it needs affordable space trips only as its core mission. Musk hopes that by reducing space exploration expenses, he will enable more people to follow his lead and colonize Mars; now, not only Mars but also Uranus – the next frontier in our expansion as a species beyond Earth.
