Elon Musk’s Bold Plan for Interstellar Travel

SpaceX plans to send 1,000,000 people to Mars by 2050 .

The next step is to create a fully reusable spacecraft, something they are well on their way to achieving.

This will allow them to transport 200 tons at a time to other worlds at a relatively low cost.

A future Starship , much larger and more advanced, will travel to other star systems.

Nuclear propulsion appears to be the easiest route to building an interstellar vehicle.

Antimatter produces 9 times more energy than nuclear fission and could cut journey time to around 1 decade .

The biggest challenge to creating such a vessel would be finding the tons of antimatter required, then safely storing it on board.

The company could mine and refine uranium from surface deposits on the Moon and Mars .

Certainly their president and CEO Gwen Shotwell is cheerleading for fast interstellar flights. Whether it takes 50 or 100 years , this could be man's greatest triumph. Assuming there's no accidents, restricting most interstellar research to Mars would seem a wise precaution. Overall, there's far less infrastructure to damage and the population should all live underground in radiation proof tunnels. Warping space with an Al Kabir Dr. would pose a whole new level of danger, so any development work would be best carried out near Pluto . But whatever SpaceX manages to pull off, it will be a wild ride into the future..