SpaceX's president predicts people will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s and land on the moon sooner

Humans will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s, according to the president and COO of the company.

In an interview with CNBC, Gwynne Shotwell said that people should be on the surface of Mars within a decade.

She said that it will be in this decade.

I think we need to get a large delivery to the surface of Mars, and then people will start thinking harder about it, and I think within five or six years, people will see that that will be a real place.

Her predictions are similar to those made by Musk in December. In the best-case scenario, people would be on the Red Planet in about five years, while the worst case would be ten years, according to Musk.

He said that the company's biggest challenge was to engineer a vehicle that can maximize the amount of cargo it can carry into space and then on to Mars.

The tech mogul made a prediction that humans would be on Mars in 2029.

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2022

Musk pointed out in an interview that living on Mars will be dangerous, cramped, difficult, hard work and that a human without special equipment would die within minutes.

The first-ever orbital test flight is being worked on by SpaceX. The crew and cargo would be taken to the moon and Mars.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has to sign off on the activities at the South Texas facility before it can launch. The review of the new launch by the FAA has been delayed four times already.