Buzz Aldrin says this is the problem with Elon Musk’s plans for Mars

[kevindavis007]

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are "bodacious," says Buzz Aldrin, who, as part of NASA's July 1969 Apollo 11 mission, was one of the first men on the moon.


While Aldrin respects Musk's ambition, he also points out that the tech billionaire is more focused on traveling to Mars than what people will do when they arrive there.


"He's a transportation person. He builds rockets," says Aldrin, speaking in Austin on Tuesday at the SXSW Festivals & Conferences.


Aldrin, now 87, recalls talking to Musk about his plans with regards to the red planet three or four years ago over lunch.


Aldrin summarizes the tech entrepreneur's response this way: "'We know how to get to Mars. We are going to build a big rocket, put a dragon on top, and go land on Mars.'" Musk has even named the hopefully Mars-bound spacecraft Dragon.


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[kevindavis007]

I'm going to have to agree with Buzz..



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[r9etb]

I'm going to have to agree with Buzz..

Kinda hard not to....

[Wingnut]

I'm going to have to agree with Buzz..

He walked the talk and Bullshit walked.   I am with Buzz.

[DB]

I'm going to have to agree with Buzz..

While that's true, you have to be able to get there before the other issues can be addressed or even really matter.

[Wingnut]

Saint elon is a con artist

[r9etb]

Saint elon is a con artist

Not entirely.  The tech is pretty cool and it more or less works.  It's just that they do a lot of half-assed stuff, and he's willing to accept half-assed performance.  The con is that he tries to sell people on the idea that half-assed is no big deal.

[Cripplecreek]

I'm in the Bezos camp on this one.

Lets get back to the moon first so we can develop long term habitability tech.

With mars you need to plan on being there for a couple of years just to have a launch window open for you. Also, we've landed plenty small craft on the surface of mars but we've never launched one from the surface let alone launched a large passenger carrying craft from the surface.

[kevindavis007]

I'm in the Bezos camp on this one.

Lets get back to the moon first so we can develop long term habitability tech.

With mars you need to plan on being there for a couple of years just to have a launch window open for you. Also, we've landed plenty small craft on the surface of mars but we've never launched one from the surface let alone launched a large passenger carrying craft from the surface.

To be honest, I was on #TeamSpaceX, but I'm slowly moving to #TeamBlueOrigin . Elon just wants Mars and that is it. He is repeating the mistakes of the Apollo program.  Jeff on the other hand, is thinking long term.

[kevindavis007]

Not entirely.  The tech is pretty cool and it more or less works.  It's just that they do a lot of half-assed stuff, and he's willing to accept half-assed performance.  The con is that he tries to sell people on the idea that half-assed is no big deal.

When it comes to space travel, I don't want it half-assed.

[Cripplecreek]

Not entirely.  The tech is pretty cool and it more or less works.  It's just that they do a lot of half-assed stuff, and he's willing to accept half-assed performance.  The con is that he tries to sell people on the idea that half-assed is no big deal.

Half assed will become a very big deal when he's standing at the podium in a press conference explaining why astronauts died.

[r9etb]

Half assed will become a very big deal when he's standing at the podium in a press conference explaining why astronauts died.

Precisely.  And yet, barring a serious change in SpaceX's corporate culture, that's exactly what he'll end up doing.

[Smokin Joe]

I'm going to have to agree with Buzz..

Me, too. Just getting there is a little like a dog chasing cars and catching one. Now what's he going to do with it?

The rest will involve some serious planning unless it is just a flyby.
Seems like a long way to go to not even plant a flag...

[geronl]

Half assed will become a very big deal when he's standing at the podium in a press conference explaining why astronauts died.

or space tourists