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Thomas Fattorini

         SpaceX is Elon Musk’s company which launches rockets in space. But SpaceX wants to go further and on August 31, Elon Musk hold a virtual conference about Mars and said his company wants to establish human beings on Mars and build a city , in a few years. The engineers of the company have created a spaceship to send humans and equipments to the red planet. They have created the Starship which can carry 150 tons or 100 people and travel 30 millions miles between the Earth and Mars. It uses fuel which could be created on Mars.

         But colonize Mars represents many difficulties:

• Establish a colony is extremely expensive. For example, to go to the Moon in the 70^s, Nasa needed 280 billion dollars.
• Mars is an unfavourable planet for humans: there is no water, except on the pole where there is only ice and at 100 meters depth. The average temperature is -63°C. The atmosphere has no oxygen and the ground is not favourable to the plant because it contains many types of iron which are toxic for the plants. For these reasons, some scientists say it will not be possible to live on Mars.
• And the last problem is who wants to go to the red planet? Astronauts, volunteers, American astronauts, astronauts of all countries?

        So, what is certain with Mars, is that we won’t go there in the next years. For the moment, it is only a dream.