--- title: Elon Musk Plans for Space-X Mars Mission: Watch Live description: Elon Musk is expected to announce plans for Mars colonization today during a speech at the International Astronautical Congress canonical: https://time.com/4510167/elon-musk-spacex-mars-watch-live/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-27T17:35:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:52:03.580Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Live: Elon Musk Announces Plans for SpaceX Mars Mission og:description: Elon Musk is expected to announce plans for Mars colonization og:url: https://time.com/4510167/elon-musk-spacex-mars-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac7ff3dbd930c19/6988a7c9f887dc3bbee97958/elon-musk-spacex-mars.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk Speaks At StartmeupHK Venture Forum og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Elon Musk Announces Plans for SpaceX Mars Mission twitter:description: Elon Musk is expected to announce plans for Mars colonization twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac7ff3dbd930c19/6988a7c9f887dc3bbee97958/elon-musk-spacex-mars.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Elon Musk Announces Plans for SpaceX Mars Mission by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 27, 2016 5:35 PM UTC  Billionaire Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., speaks during the StartmeupHK Venture Forum in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016\. Tesla is looking for a Chinese production partner but is "still trying to figure that out," Musk said. Billionaire Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., speaks during the StartmeupHK Venture Forum in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016\. Tesla is looking for a Chinese production partner but is "still trying to figure that out," Musk said.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images 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. 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