Elon Musk has not even released his "plans" for mars missions and also mct will not be coming anytime soon we don't even know what it looks like other than it will be a super big mamma rocket with methane however nasa is going to need REAL FREAKING plan if it wants to go to mars before 2050. honestly i think that a moon base would be a much better idea for how to spend the next 10 years in space honestly before we can even think about manned mars missons we need to demonstrate that humans can live on the surface of another rock isolated and relatively self sufficient using chemicals and materials found in situ and using them to sustain the base. why? because you would know that AFTER you land on mars you need to find a way to survive the wait for earth and mars to be in the position for your space ship to return home but we don't have a base on another body in our solar system yet so its hard to say we can have a temporary base on mars. Which is why we should have a moon base first and also a cis lunar space station which nasa wants to have. But if you want nasa to be useful to manned space exploration in the near future increase nasa's budget to atleast 1% and decrease millitary spending because we all know that we can lose a little bit of our defense budget safely and killing other human beings sucks.but anyway spacex will have to start reusing there rockets after working for there clients before im convinced so be i will be weary of the spacex mars in 2020 ridiculous hype.
