Why Elon Musk is so obsessed with Mars and why he keeps launching and crashing spaceships down in Texas

Elon Musk , the billionaire founder of the Tesla electric car company, is obsessed with space.

He founded his SpaceX company long before he ever got involved with Tesla .

The primary goal for Elon Musk and SpaceX is to establish a human city of around 1,000,000 people on the planet Mars within our lifetime.

The Internet, lights, and exploding spaceships are all pieces of the puzzle.

Elon Musk's plan is to land humans on Mars by the year 2026 .

But how fast does that actually happen? Well, that depends on your perception of time.

To reach the goal of 1,000,000 people, they would need to launch an average of three ships per day over the course of ten years .

Elon Musk has revealed plans for a Mars mission to colonize Mars .

The plan is to launch a constellation of Starlink satellites around the planet.

The Starlink satellite network is not only going to be the business model that pays for all of this Mars exploration to happen, but it will also be crucial in maintaining interplanetary network connections.