Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, is no stranger to making bold statements about humanity’s future in space. Among his most memorable is, “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” This quip captures Musk’s unwavering commitment to making Mars colonization a reality while revealing the human side of his aspirations—a desire to explore,

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the help of his space company's gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the "long-term survival of consciousness" by taking humans to the Red Planet.