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Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon Musk's plans
- February 22, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as a "distraction." In a post to his X social-media platform, he declared that "we're going straight to Mars."
Originally published at Phys.org