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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plans for humans to settle on Mars on Tuesday, laying out a master scheme for establishing a colony on the red planet._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 27, 2016 5:35 PM UTC SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plans for humans to settle on Mars on Tuesday, laying out a master scheme for establishing a colony on the red planet. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 27, 2016 5:35 PM UTC Elon Musk is expected to announce [plans for the colonization of Mars](http://time.com/4311049/mars-musk-spacex-2018/) today during a speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. Musk, the founder and CEO of [SpaceX](http://time.com/space-x-ten-things-to-know/), said in April that he intends to launch an unmanned Mars mission as early as 2018, the first step in his goal to send people to the Red Planet. He intends to beat NASA’s goal of sending astronauts to Mars by the 2030s by a decade. Musk will outline his plans to send humans to the planet and how humans will establish a city on Mars during his talk in Guadalajara. Watch Musk speak live above starting at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. ## Transcript I think the first journey to Mars is gonna be really, very dangerous. The risk of fatality will be high, there's just now way around it. So I would not suggest having children or, it would be basically are you prepared to die. Then if that's okay, then Your candidate for going. We think that the costs of moving to Mars ultimately could drop below a $ 100, 000. Ultimately I suspect that you'd see Mars transfer times of, as little as 30 days in the more distant future. So it's fairly manageable considering the trips that people used to do in the old days. It'd routinely take sailing voyages that would be six months or more. In order to make it appealing and increase that portion of the Venn diagram of people who actually want to go, it's got to be really fun and exciting and it can't feel cramped or boring. So the crew compartment or our crew compartment is set up so you can do zero- G games. You could float around. It would be like movies, lecture halls, cabins, a restaurant. It would be really fun to go. 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