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by SahAssar 2160 days ago
What? You don't think national space agencies are interested in exploring and settling mars?

AFAIK no private company or individual has ever sent anything to mars while national space agencies have launched or tried to launch 147 missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
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garmaine 2160 days ago
C’mon, the obvious context here is SpaceX which wants to make a colonist of 1M people on Mars with solar power.
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SahAssar 2160 days ago
The parent comment said:

> the people interested in exploring and settling Mars are private citizens

which is what I argued against.

Also I'm pretty sure the national space agencies would like "colony of 1M people on Mars with solar power" too, and looking at the progress made they seem closer.

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