SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the help of his space company’s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the “long-term survival of consciousness” by ferrying a million settlers to permanent residency on the Red Planet by 2050.Beyond political, technological, and ethical questions, it could end up being prohibitively expensive, even for the richest man in the world. Do you think that the mission is a death trap ?

