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In 2015 Elon musks went on an interview with a billionaire on Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show to discuss his idea to bomb Mars. In that interview, both Colbert and musk discuss habitation on mars. As we all know, the atmosphere of Mars is very freezingly cold, which doesn’t allow …

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electromagnetic thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and heat a propellant. Then a magnetic field accelerates the resulting plasma to generate thrust (plasma propulsion engine). It is one of several types of …