SpaceX's Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin Announcing Updated Mars Plans Tonight

[Elderberry]

Space.com by Mike Wall 9/28/2017

Tonight (Sept. 28), SpaceX and Lockheed Martin will unveil their latest plans for getting people to Mars.

Both companies will do so at the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. First up is Lockheed, which will announce updates to its "Mars Base Camp" concept at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT; 7:30 a.m. Friday local Adelaide time). You can watch the presentation https://www.australiascience.tv/live-from-the-68th-iac-lockheed-martins-mission-to-mars/

Then, at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday (0430 GMT; 2 p.m. Adelaide time), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk will reveal changes to the company's Mars-colonization architecture, which Musk first announced last year at the 67th IAC in Mexico. https://www.space.com/34213-spacex-interplanetary-transport-mars-flights-in-images.html

More: https://www.space.com/38299-elon-musk-spacex-lockheed-martin-mars-plans.html

[Frank Cannon]

The race to Mars looks more like a race for taxpayers dollars. This whole thing is a load of shit.