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Colonisation On Mars: What are the challenges

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Space-x   CEO-   Elon Musk’s  optimistic plans about Mars colonization have been all over the internet lately. Musk claims that the first un-crewed Mars mission will be initiated by 2024: that’s literally 3 years (more or less) from now.  At the Axel Springer Award  2020 ,  Elon Musk   said that he is highly confident that the first crewed flights to Mars will happen in 2026.  Although these claims might seem highly convincing, there a ton of problems that we will have to overcome in order to survive on Mars- provided that we are even able to successfully reach the red planet.  Musk, however, is a man of his words; apart from his theoretical plans, Musk has shown that space travel is possible, and that too, at affordable prices. In 2006,  Space-X   became one of the first private space exploration companies to be funded by  NASA .  Today,  Space-X   transports Cargo and crew to the  I nternational Space Stat...