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Topic:	[Discuss] SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]Elon Musk [URL=https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_becoming_a/]took part in a Reddit AMA[/URL] (Ask Me Anything) on Sunday (Oct. 23), answering more than a dozen questions out of hundreds submitted. The Q&A was focused on expanding on his Interplanetary Transport System talk in September. Among the questions he answered was one about how the initial ITS flights would establish the infrastructure needed on Mars. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We are still far from figuring this out in detail, but the current plan is: [list=1][]Send Dragon scouting missions, initially just to make sure we know how to land without adding a crater and then to figure out the best way to get water for the CH4/O2 Sabatier Reaction. []Heart of Gold spaceship flies to Mars loaded only with equipment to build the propellant plant. []First crewed mission with equipment to build rudimentary base and complete the propellant plant. []Try to double the number of flights with each Earth-Mars orbital rendezvous, which is every 26 months, until the city can grow by itself.[/list][/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> In response to a related question Musk added: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Early missions will be heavily weighted towards cargo. First crewed mission would have about a dozen people, as the goal will be to build out and troubleshoot the propellant plant and Mars Base Alpha power system.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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