**Elon Musk’s SpaceX Unveils Plan to Send Humans to Mars by 2024**
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has unveiled an ambitious plan to send humans to Mars by 2024, with the goal of establishing a permanent human presence on the Red Planet. The plan, which was announced at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, on September 25, 2017, is the most ambitious and detailed Mars exploration plan to date.
SpaceX’s plan calls for sending a crew of two astronauts to Mars in 2024, followed by a larger crew of four astronauts in 2026. The astronauts will land on Mars in a spacecraft called the Dragon 2, which will be launched into orbit by a Falcon Heavy rocket. Once on Mars, the astronauts will spend several months exploring the planet’s surface and conducting scientific experiments. They will also begin to build a permanent habitat on Mars, which will be used by future crews.
Musk said that the goal of the Mars mission is to .