
Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars
Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million peoplein an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.
Ali Sundermier is a science reporter at Business Insider. Before joining Business Insider she interned at Fermilab and has contributed stories to Symmetry and NASA. She holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Stony Brook University.
Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million peoplein an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.
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