Glass homes, robot miners and giant rockets: Elon Musk outlines SpaceX's plans to create a colony on Mars

More details have been revealed about Elon Musk's vision for a human colony on Mars. In a recent Reddit'Ask Me Anything' session, Musk opened up about his plans for making humans a'multiplanetary species.' He says that SpaceX plans to send up to one million people to live in glass domes on Mars within '40 to 100 years.' This would require a huge number of'miner/tunnelling droids' that would build underground pressurised space for industrial activity. In a new Reddit'Ask Me Anything' session, Elon Musk opened up about his hopes of making humans a'multiplanetary species.'