Elon Musk: “We are going to be able to take astronauts to Mars.”

“So I have to say that I was not a very good chief engineer in the beginning, but did learn over time. And I think we've gotten at this point to where the vehicle is very reliable and We are going to be able to take astronauts to Mars. In fact, we want to take anyone who goes to Mars and ultimately build a self sustaining civilization on Mars. That is the long term goal of the company.” (02:01–02:07)

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