太空探索公司创始人和首席执行官马斯克9月27日在于墨西哥举办的2016年国际宇航大会上介绍了该公司雄心勃勃的火星殖民构想。这位富豪企业家此前就反复表示,他2002年创办太空探索公司的主要目的就是要帮助人类实现火星殖民。他说,虽然公司目前只动用了一小部分力量来从事这项工作,但该项目已经取得了初步进展。马斯克在演讲中宣布了有关太空探索公司登陆和殖民火星目标的多条消息,重点介绍了该公司拟研制的巨型“行星际运输系统”(ITS)。该系统拟利用三个不同的可 Musk, founder and chief executive of Space Exploration, presented the company’s ambitious Mars colonial concept at the 2016 IAA Conference in Mexico on September 27. The rich entrepreneur had repeatedly said before that he was the main purpose of founding a space exploration company in 2002 to help mankind realize Mars colonization. He said that although the company is currently using only a small part of its power to carry out this work, the project has made initial progress. In his speech, Musk announced several pieces of news about the space exploration company landing and colonizing Mars targets, highlighting the company’s giant “inter-satellite transportation system” (ITS). The system is intended to use three different options