SpaceX founder Elon Musk has spun his latest talk about Mars colonization into a second academic study. Musk's full paper, titled "Making Life Multi-Planetary," was published online this month by the journal New Space. It's currently available to read for free.
"You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great - and that's what being a spacefaring civilization is all about," reads the beginning of the study. "It's about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can't think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars."
If that line sounds familiar, that's because it comes from Musk's October 2017 presentation to the International Astronautical Congress. In fact, the entire study closely follows that talk, though some new details and images have been added. Musk followed the same process after he debuted his preliminary Mars colonization plans at the IAC in September 2016 - he later published a 2017 paper outlining those plans in New Space.
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