SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years

SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years: "'We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years,' Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. 'We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years.'

SpaceX is one of the two leading private space companies in the United States and has won $75 million from the US space agency NASA to help its pursuit of developing a spacecraft to replace the space shuttle.

The California-based company last year completed its first successful test of an unmanned space capsule into orbit and back.

'Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo to other planets, and then it will be up to people if they want to go,' said Musk, who also runs the Tesla company which develops electric cars."