Stunning views, lots of elbow room, and complete custom living are just a few of the benefits of space settlements — and we might just be closer to attaining them than you’d think.
Elon Musk, founder of the private space transport company SpaceX, earlier this month outlined plans for the colonization of Mars, something he says can get under way in the next 10 to 20 years with the first manned mission to the Red Planet. If the first settlement is designed to build and sustain additional settlements, colonization could proceed from there quite rapidly, he explained at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, as reported by Space.com.
via cnet
November 27, 2012
