Elon Musk says it's 'highly likely' man will go to Mars within 10 years because he's 'congenitally optimistic'

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Elon Musk looks at his phone with a display of a space capsule entering orbit behind him.
Elon Musk believes man will go to mars within 10 years.

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Watch Elon Musk's SpaceX test the most powerful rocket system ever built

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SpaceX fire up engines on Super Heavy booster, next to picture of Elon Musk.
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster on the launchpad at the Starbase facility. Elon Musk said 31 out of 33 engines fired.

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The green comet and Mars appear side-by-side this weekend. Spot them together in the night sky.

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Comet ZTF, as photographed on January 18, 2023.

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Curiosity Rover Finds Foot-Long Meteorite on Martian Surface

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NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week.

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Perseverance Rover Captures Ominous Sign of Mars’ Impending Cloudy Season

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The sky is a hazy shade of—er, summer—on Mars, as captured in a new image by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

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Bill Gates said he'd rather fund vaccines to 'save lives' than go to Mars, but he thinks someday Elon Musk will be a 'great philanthropist'

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Perseverance Completes Its Sample Depot After 2 Years on Mars

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NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, and—vitally—collecting rock samples that will be shipped to Earth in the early 2030s.

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Warren Buffett shelled out $6.5 billion to help Mars buy Wrigley during the financial crisis. Here's how he made the candy deal happen.

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Warren Buffett.

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NASA and DARPA plan to test a nuclear-powered rocket that could take humans to Mars in record time

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artist's concept shows a fairly simple rocket carrying logos from NASA and DARPA, flying away from a planet.
An artist's illustration of the Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will be used to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine.

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NASA spotted a rock formation on Mars that looks just like a giant bear face

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A black and white picture taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a peculiar rock formation. A crack runs in a circle around a hill and two craters, making it look like the face of a bear.
A photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks like a bear.

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