Elon Musk Predicts Mars Landing Within Next Five Years

Elon Musk, Time Magazine’s 2021 “Person of the Year,” said in an interview with the magazine that he expects his company to be “landing on Mars” within the next five years.

“I’ll be surprised if we’re not landing on Mars within five years,” the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla said.

Musk’s vision for Mars is clearly much larger than merely landing on the red planet.

“The next really big thing is to build a self-sustaining city on Mars and bring the animals and creatures of Earth there,” Musk said in the report. “Sort of like a futuristic Noah’s ark.”

Before launching for Mars, Musk has plans a bit closer to Earth. In April, SpaceX signed on to an effort with NASA to return American astronauts to the moon for the first time in half a century.