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Elon Musk said he's 'definitely going to be dead' before humans go to Mars — and you probably will be too

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he's "confident" that moving to Mars could eventually cost less than $500,000 .

Without significant changes in the US economy, labor rights, taxes on the richest 1 percent , and leadership, fewer citizens in First World countries would be able to afford a ticket to Mars without finding jobs with salaries that are an order of magnitude or two greater than $ 60,000 . A settlement on Mars developed enough to support non essential personnel, with interplanetary tickets cheap enough to serve as a viable escape hatch from Earth .

SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier by Brad Bergan is available for $ 22.46 on Amazon .

The book explores the course of commercial space travel from the fall of the Soviet Union to now, and how economic pressures and disasters opened the door for companies like SpaceX to launch a new era of space exploration.