SpaceX’s board has approved a compensation plan for Elon Musk that links massive stock awards to achieving a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishing a million-person Mars colony, as well as building orbital data centers. The package, disclosed in SEC ...

Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, is a cosmic mistake, says a top Mars scholar.

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal. Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google This post may contain links ...

Find Mars Colony Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Mars Colony and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV.COM. Explore more on Mars Colony.

Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not achieved. Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson quotes him ...