US EditionRenowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission
- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, continues developing the Starship rocket amid repeated test flight failures labeled as rapid unscheduled disassemblies in 2025.
- Musk aims to enable human settlement on Mars but faces criticism from Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin, who warns timelines and political ties risk derailing efforts.
- Zubrin argues the Mars initiative must be a program of the Free World, not a Musk or Trump project, especially amid NASA budget cuts and Musk-Trump tensions.
- Zubrin noted that the partnership between Trump and Musk is temporary and stressed that the mission to explore Mars should represent the triumph of freedom rather than authoritarian control.
- Zubrin concluded humanity goes to Mars out of hope to establish new civilizations and called for an Apollo-like program to demonstrate what free people can achieve.
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Elon Musk's "Hubris and Arrogance" Are Ruining Our Chances of Actually Getting to Mars, Says Leading Expert
The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and visit the Red Planet. Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars, told Agence France-Presse in an interview that Musk is "absolutely instrumental in opening up this opportunity to get humans to Mars, both through the development of Starship and also the inspiration that …
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Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission
Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars -- so why has the renowned aerospace engineer soured on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge?
A new study challenges everything we thought we knew about space travel: a physicist identified two trajectories that would allow us to reach Mars in just three months, without the need for futuristic technologies.The finding could accelerate the arrival of human beings on the red planet well ahead of schedule.For years it was assumed that traveling to Mars required between six and nine months of travel.However, recent research suggests that thi…
Robert Zubrin literally wrote the book on why humanity should go on Mars – so why did the famous aerospace engineer sour on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge? In an interview, the founder of the 73-year-old Mars company delivered a criticism of blisters, accusing the most [...]
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