You might think Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, might dream of putting an astronaut on Mars. But the high tech entrepreneur envisions the day when there is a working, thriving, self-sustaining civilization of a million people or more on Mars.

Musk has faith his dream will turn into reality, maybe in 100 years or less.

He’s already started figuring out and building the technology that would be needed to transport hundreds of people and the equipment required to build habitats, greenhouses, iron foundries and propellant plants on the Red Planet.

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