Source: Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars – Scientific American
RE: “Making Humanity a Multi-Planetary Species” by Elon Musk
Elon Musk has put his Mars-colonization vision to paper, and you can read it for free.
Musk’s Mars vision centers on a reusable rocket-and-spaceship combo that he’s dubbed the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). … The ITS boosters will be designed to fly about 1,000 times each … Each ITS ship would probably be able to make 12 to 15 deep-space journeys during its operational life, Musk wrote, and each fuel tanker could likely fly to Earth orbit 100 or so times.