Name: SpaceX's first mission to Mars will be unlike anything anyone has tried before
Uploaded: 2017-06-15T16:30:00Z
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How SpaceX will land on Mars in 2018

Business Insider and Jessica Orwig

2017-06-15T16:30:00Z

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Elon Musk's private company SpaceX has big plans to usher in a new era of reusable rockets that could send the first humans to Mars and return them home. Here's how the company plans to land on the Red Planet as soon as 2018.

Produced and animated by Alex Kuzoian. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig.

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Elon Musk's private company SpaceX has big plans to usher in a new era of reusable rockets that could send the first humans to Mars and return them home. Here's how the company plans to land on the Red Planet as soon as 2018.