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The non-fiction e-book in query known as “Mars Project” and is written by Wernher von BraunIt was translated from German and printed in English in 1953Elon Musk has been very vocal about his purpose to take people to Mars in lower than a decade
Tech billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been very vocal about his purpose to take people to Mars in lower than a decade. Interestingly, somebody has introduced up that his identify was talked about in a e-book about house journey virtually 20 years earlier than he was born, implying that his mission has lengthy been predicted.
It was first introduced up on Twitter after Musk made a cryptic publish about future. In response to the tweet, a person who goes by the identify Toby Li famous that the billionaire’s identify was talked about in a non-fiction e-book, “Mars Project.”
“Speaking about future, do you know that Von Braun’s 1953 e-book ‘Mars Project,’ referenced an individual named Elon that may deliver people to Mars? Pretty nuts,” Li wrote as he shared an picture of what gave the impression to be a web page from an previous e-book. The identify “Elon” might be seen encircled within the stated photograph.
“Are we positive that is actual,” Musk replied.
Another netizen, who goes by the identify Pranay Pathole, chimed in to right Li’s interpretation of the e-book.
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“Yeah it is actual. This is the English transcript of the identical e-book … But ‘Elon’ referred by Von Braun within the e-book is not the identify of the individual however somewhat the identify of the place one thing like an elected meritocratic president,” Pathole clarified.
“Mars Project” is a 1952 non-fiction scientific e-book written by Wernher von Braun, a German rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and house architect. It was translated from German and printed in English by the University of Illinois Press in 1953.
The e-book’s creator labored in Nazi Germany’s rocket growth program at the beginning of his profession and was recruited by the U.S. on the finish of World War II, together with round 1,600 German engineers and scientists. They have been assigned to deal with a labeled intelligence program codenamed, “Operation Paperclip.” “Mars Project” was meant to explain a Mars mission.
In an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast launched in December 2021, the tech billionaire was requested in regards to the timeline of SpaceX bringing human beings to the Red Planet. Musk replied, “Best case is about 5 years, worst case 10 years.”
According to him, the success of the venture is anchored on “engineering the automobile.” He additionally talked about that “starship is probably the most complicated and superior rocket that is ever been made.”