SpaceX has published Elon Musk's presentation about colonizing Mars - here's the full transcript and slides

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SpaceX has published Elon Musk's presentation about colonizing Mars - here's the full transcript and slides

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Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with SpaceX.

In late September, billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk debuted a fresh plan for colonizing Mars with 1 million people.

The focus of Musk's new presentation, which updates a 2016 talk he gave at the International Astronautical Congress, was the "Big F---ing Rocket," or BFR.

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Musk told a crowd at the 2017 IAC meeting in Adelaide, Australia, that he hopes to start building the 35-story space vehicle in early 2018, launch the first BFR to Mars in 2022, and use it to land crewed missions on the red planet in 2024 (though he has yet to say how a Martian colony would survive).

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high-speed transportation system around Earth.

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After Musk's talk on September 28, a Reddit user transcribed the full 42-minute-long presentation, and SpaceX published a high-resolution version of Musk's slides to its Mars website last week, a company spokesperson confirmed with Business Insider.

We've edited and appended the new transcript and slides here to reproduce Musk's detailed presentation in full. If you're ready to learn a thing or two about rocket science from a tech mogul, keep scrolling.