With some technical help from NASA, aerospace company SpaceX plans to launch a mission to Mars as soon as 2018.

While NASA has been sending robotic landers and orbiters to Mars and making plans to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s, SpaceX is planning on getting there sooner.

The company, which is headed by billionaire high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, tweeted today, “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come.”

Musk then went on to tweet that the Dragon 2 spacecraft, known as Red Dragon, is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system. The Red Dragon Mars mission will be its first test flight.

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