7 Ways SpaceX Will Get Us To Mars By 2018

That's less than two years folks.

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Those who keep half an eye on the space travel industry can't help but have noticed the casual ramping up of SpaceX's efforts to get us off world - and fast.

For those who haven't been keeping half an eye on the space travel industry, you should know that the folks at SpaceX have been causally ramping up their efforts to get us off world - and fast.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, SpaceX for short, is a private aerospace technology company based in California. Basically, they build rockets. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk who is, by all accounts, the aeronautical version of Willy Wonka, with his great factory full of spaceships and a retirement plan that includes moving to Mars on a permanent basis.

In the days of dwindling government space programs, the mantle of manned and unmanned space exploration has come to rest on the shoulders of private companies, and they're going about it in a whole new way. The way things are heading, a Mars mission could be well underway before the decade is out.

SpaceX have always been pretty open about the fact that their ultimate goal is to put humans on Mars and, judging by the things they've been up to of late, we should probably believe them.

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