Gloating Elon Musk 公約するs to colonize 火星 after SpaceX 首尾よく 開始する，打ち上げるs first US moon lander 使節団 since 1972 but 警告するs 'only if civilization lasts long enough'

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Tesla 創立者 Elon Musk has once again 公約するd to 'colonize 火星' in the wake of?the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a 個人として owned 宇宙船.

The company's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, 解除するd off すぐに after 1 a.m. EST 頂上に a two-行う／開催する／段階 Falcon 9 ロケット／急騰する flown by Musk' SpaceX from 航空宇宙局's Kennedy Space 中心 in Cape Canaveral.?

The 業績／成就 誘発するd Tesla's X account to bring a 引用する from Musk that was first 言及／関連d in Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography of the South African.?

'I'm going to colonize 火星. My 使節団 in life is to make mankind multiplanetary civilization,' the tweet read. Musk's retweeted the message from his personal account with the …を伴ってing words: 'Only if civilization last s long enough.'

The latter is a likely 言及／関連 Musk's long held belief that the world is under 居住させるing, 説 in 2023 that 拒絶する／低下するing birth 率s were 'the biggest danger civilization 直面するs so far.' Musk has fathered 11 children with three different women.

The 航空宇宙局's Nova-C lunar lander, encapsulated within the fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 ロケット／急騰する, part of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 使節団, 解除するs up from the 開始する，打ち上げる コンビナート／複合体 39A at the Kennedy Space 中心

This image from ビデオ 供給するd by SpaceX 経由で 航空宇宙局 TV shows Intuitive Machines' lunar lander separating from the ロケット／急騰する's upper 行う／開催する／段階 and 長，率いるing toward the moon

Musk was first 引用するd as wanting to colonize 火星 in Walter Isaacsson's 2023 biography

In 2017, Musk said that the number of people on Earth is '加速するing に向かって 崩壊（する） but few seem to notice or care'?

In 2017, Musk said that the number of people on Earth is '加速するing に向かって 崩壊（する） but few seem to notice or care.'

Then in 2021 he 警告するd that civilization is 'going to 崩壊する' if people don't have more children.

And just last year Musk 述べるd himself as 'always banging the baby 派手に宣伝する', 警告 that once the birth 率 starts to 落ちる 'it 加速するs'.

He has pointed to a 下降 in Japan's 全住民 as 証拠 for his 関心s, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing the nation would 'flat-out disappear' if the worrying 傾向 continues. And Musk 警告するd Italy 'will have no people' if its low birth 率 continues.

Some countries are taking 激烈な 対策 to try and 側近 their 国民s to have more children.

Low-居住させるd 地域s in Finland have dished out $10,000, paid over the course of 10 years, for each child a couple has.

（許可，名誉などを）与えるing Isaacson, Musk first made his comments about colonizing 火星 while reading a 'tattered 手動式の for a ロシアの ロケット／急騰する engine' in a cabana in Las Vegas at a PayPal event.?

Former PayPal exec 示す Woolway happened to ask Musk what he planned to do next.

'I'm going to colonize 火星. My 使節団 in life is to make mankind a multiplanetary civilization,' he said.

'Dude, you're 気が狂って,' Woolway 答える／応じるd.?

?一方／合間 on the moon this morning,? a live 航空宇宙局-SpaceX online ビデオ 料金d showed the two-行う／開催する／段階, 25-story ロケット／急騰する roaring off the 開始する，打ち上げる pad and streaking into the dark sky over Florida's 大西洋 coast, 追跡するd by a fiery yellowish plume of exhaust.

About 48 minutes after 開始する，打ち上げる, the six-legged lander was shown 存在 解放（する）d from Falcon 9's upper 行う／開催する／段階 about 139 miles above Earth and drifting away on its voyage to the moon.

'IM-1 Odysseus lunar lander 分離 確認するd,' a 使節団 監査役 was heard 説.

Moments later, 使節団 操作／手術s in Houston received its first 無線で通信する signals from Odysseus as the lander began an 自動化するd 過程 of 力／強力にするing on its systems and orienting itself in space, によれば webcast commentators.

Although considered an Intuitive Machines 使節団, the IM-1 flight is carrying six 航空宇宙局 payloads of 器具s designed to gather data about the lunar 環境 ahead of 航空宇宙局's planned return of 宇宙飛行士s to the moon later this １０年間.

Thursday's 開始する，打ち上げる （機の）カム a month after the lunar lan der of another 私的な 会社／堅い, Astrobotic 科学（工学）技術, 苦しむd a propulsion system 漏れる on its way to the moon すぐに after 存在 placed in 軌道 on Jan. 8 by a 部隊d 開始する，打ち上げる 同盟 (ULA) Vulcan ロケット／急騰する making its debut flight.

The 失敗 of Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, which was also 飛行機で行くing 航空宇宙局 payloads to the moon, 示すd the third time a 私的な company had been unable to 達成する a 'soft 上陸' on the lunar surface, に引き続いて ill-運命／宿命d 成果／努力s by companies from イスラエル and Japan.

Those 事故s illustrated the 危険s 航空宇宙局 直面するs in leaning more ひどく on the 商業の 部門 than it had in the past to realize its spaceflight goals.

計画（する）s call for Odysseus to reach its 目的地 after a weeklong flight, with a Feb. 22 上陸 at 噴火口，クレーター Malapert A 近づく the moon's south 政治家.

If successful, the flight would 代表する the first controlled 降下／家系 to the lunar surface by a U.S. 宇宙船 since the final Apollo 乗組員d moon 使節団 in 1972, and the first by a 私的な company.

The feat also would 示す the first 旅行 to the lunar surface under 航空宇宙局's Artemis moon program, as the U.S. races to return 宇宙飛行士s to Earth's natural 衛星 before 中国 lands its own 乗組員d 宇宙船 there.

IM-1 is the 最新の 実験（する） of 航空宇宙局's 戦略 of 支払う／賃金ing for the use of 宇宙船 built and owned by 私的な companies to 削除する the cost of the Artemis 使節団s, 想像するd as precursors to human 探検 of 火星.

By contrast, during the Apollo 時代, 航空宇宙局 bought ロケット／急騰するs and other 科学（工学）技術 from the 私的な 部門, but owned and operated them itself.

航空宇宙局 発表するd last month that it was 延期するing its 的 date for a first 乗組員d Artemis moon 上陸 from 2025 to late 2026, while 中国 has said it was 目的（とする）ing for 2030.

Small landers such as Nova-C are 推定する／予想するd to get there first, carrying 器具s to closely 調査する the lunar landscape, its 資源s and 可能性のある hazards. Odysseus will 焦点（を合わせる） on space 天候 interactions with the moon's surface, 無線で通信する astronomy, precision 上陸 科学（工学）技術s and 航海.

Intuitive Machine's IM-2 使節団 is scheduled to land at the lunar south 政治家 in 2024 , followed by an IM-3 使節団 later in the year with several small rovers.

Last month, Japan became the fifth country to place a lander on the moon, with its space 機関 JAXA 達成するing an 異常に 正確な "pinpoint" touchdown of its SLIM 調査（する） last month. Last year, India became the fourth nation to land on the moon, after Russia failed in an 試みる／企てる the same month.

The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, the former Soviet Union and 中国 are the only other countries that have carried out successful soft lunar touchdowns. 中国 得点する／非難する／２０d a world first in 2019 by 達成するing the first 上陸 on the far 味方する of the moon.