Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has never hidden his ambition to bring his spacecraft to Mars. Recently, in particular the unveiling of the Dragon V2 spacecraft, brought him back to the spotlight with new statements and interviews in which he talks a bit about his plans.

In the past, Elon Musk stated that he opened SpaceX with the ultimate goal of developing the technologies needed to bring people to Mars. For him it’s not just a scientific mission aiming to carry astronauts to the red planet to study it in person but to found a colony.