Talk:SpaceX Mars colonization program

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Total Rewriting Needed

The Mars Transportation Infrastructure has changed significantly since 2016. It is time for the articles surrounding it to change too.Ultimograph5 (talk) 19:25, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article seems to summarize the overall SpaceX Mars transportation infrastructure, which is the current article title, pretty decently from the beginning of substantive disclosure by SpaceX through mid-2019. What in particular would you think still needs to change, Ultimograph5?

It will, of course, continue to evolve as SpaceX works the iterative design process on the mongo launch vehicles/stages that can make the access to interplanetary space and Mars possible for them. Some, even, on 24th of this month when SpaceX CEO is expected to provide a substantive update and review of design decisions to date. N2e (talk) 19:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At some point we can rename it to "History of ..." - as it is mainly historic. We got a lot of information about Mars plans in 2016-2017, we know they changed a lot since then but we don't know the new status. We did get many updates about the rocket and the progress is tracked in Starship (rocket) and similar articles, but you don't see these updates here ("Construction of the first of the Super Heavy vehicles would begin in 2018, according to Musk."). --mfb (talk) 01:29, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Interplanetary Transport System" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Interplanetary Transport System. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. --Soumyabrata (talk • subpages) 04:55, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 July 2020

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SpaceX Mars transportation infrastructure → SpaceX Mars program – More WP:CONCISE and WP:NATURAL. Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 13:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Bingobro (Chat) 09:36, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support --mfb (talk) 00:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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opposition to mars expeditions

Is there any serious opposition to mars expeditions? I am personally against any attempt to go to mars, not to speak to send humans, it seems to be such a really childish pursuit. Not particularly technically clever, just hugely expensive, an overgrown child dream like going to the moon or the space station. Plus the contamination issue. The most reveling justification is the one of the backup location for a specie which might be destroying the planet where it could live in harmony if it only would keep quiet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omblauman (talk • contribs) 17:01, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update needed

2021 is nearly over, but you would not know it from this article. The biggest issue is on the timeline to launch. Have they actually made the progress this year they projected late last year, or not? Has Covid-19 disrupted their planning and process at all?John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tone

"The tone here is probably too optimistic and confident on the goal" per User:CactiStaccingCrane per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1084758038 Swliv (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the tone feels like that SpaceX will land people on Mars, it's just a matter of time. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to have the concern clearly identified for someone (else) wishing to attempt to improve the tone. My 2nd edit, now done, leads a reader here from the template on the article. That's what I'd wanted. Swliv (talk) 18:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For those who want to improve the article, cutting down on original research, primary sources, and weasel words (all the damn quotations) is a great place to start. Then more criticisms can be added (radiation shielding, infeasibility like other Mars plans in the past, etc.) CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]