CNN News: Space X

The head of SpaceX, a space exploration company, is laying out a plan for humans to colonize Mars, the planet. And Elon Musk says this could happen in 50 to 150 years, though he wants to get it started, sending the first humans to Mars in the year 2024.

美國太空探索公司SpaceX,正在制定計劃讓人類來殖民火星。伊隆·馬斯克表示，盡管可能在2024年將首個人送上火星，但是人類要殖民火星可能還需要50到150年。

ELON MUSK, CEO TESLA MOTORS: I think there are two main motivations for Mars. I mean, one is, is the sort of defense reason of saying, OK, if something would have happened to Earth, is live as we know it, does it end? Or if it`s on another planet, then it probably doesn`t end.

伊隆•馬斯克：我覺得人類想要殖民地球有兩大動力：其中一個原因是因為自衛(wèi)，如果以后地球出現(xiàn)什么問題，這意味著人類的終結(jié)嗎?如果我們?nèi)祟愔笊畹狡渌乔蛏?，那么人類就可能不會終結(jié)。

Multi-planet civilization is likely to last a lot longer than a single civilization.

多星球的文明可能比單個地球文明持續(xù)的時間要長些。

The other part of it is, just being an incredible adventure. It would be a very exciting and even if somebody never plan to go to Mars, just following the progress I think would -- vicariously would be quite aspiring.

而另外一個動力是因為不可思議的冒險。因為從沒有人計劃去火星，按照現(xiàn)在的進度我想將會非常的刺激、興奮。

AZUZ: But at the moment, quite expensive. Musk says it costs $10 billion to get someone there with today`s technology. He wants to get the price of a ticket down to $200,000 per person, through the development of newer and more advanced systems. He says, ultimately, the mission would need a combo of private and government funds.

阿祖茲：但是，現(xiàn)在，研究成本非常的昂貴。馬斯克表示，用現(xiàn)在的技術(shù)將人類送到火星需要花費100億美元。他希望通過更加新的先進的技術(shù)將票價降到20萬美元/人。馬斯克還表示

The downsides: Musk says that people wanting to go to Mars would have to be prepared to die, that the fatally risk would be high. Also, SpaceX is currently dealing with setbacks, like the explosion of one of its rockets on a launch pad earlier this month. But the company, like the U.S. government, is working to send people far beyond the moon.

負面消息：馬斯克表示想要去火星的人們要做好死亡的準備，因為致命危險非常高。所以，SpaceX現(xiàn)在正在解決一些難題，例如，之前發(fā)射的過程中有一個火箭爆炸。但是美國政府正在致力于將人類送到月球以外的地方。