Get to Mars by Selling All Your Earthly Possessions - Todd Woody - The Atlantic

Article summary: "Elon Musk wants a ticket to Mars to cost $500,000. For those left behind, he'll have a cheap electric car for you."

"You and I aren’t going to Mars anytime soon, but if and when a base is established on the Red Planet one day, Elon Musk wants a ticket there to cost about what you’d pay for a California home. In other words, about $500,000.

"From a ticket price perspective, we’ve got to get the ticket price down to the point where enough people can afford to go to Mars if they sell all their stuff on Earth,” said Musk Wednesday during the World Energy Innovation Forum confab at Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, California, which formerly churned out cars for General Motors and Toyota."

Get to Mars by Selling All Your Earthly Possessions - Todd Woody - The Atlantic