Elon Musk hopes to establish a city of one million people on Mars by 2050, even though no humans have ever landed on the planet. However, the feasibility of space colonization depends on the planet in question, as human colonization of Mars could be possible within decades, according to Serkan Saydam, a professor at the University of New South Wales.
It remains to be seen whether humans will ever be able to colonize worlds beyond the Solar System, as the prospects for such an endeavor remain uncertain. Nevertheless, the possibility of colonizing Mars within the next few decades raises the potential for further space exploration in the not-too-distant future.
Mining engineer Saydam believes that by 2050 humans will establish a colony on Mars. However, other scientists have expressed less optimistic opinions about the possibility of colonization by 2050.
Aeronautics engineer Louis Friedman, the co-founder of the nonprofit the Planetary Society, told Gizmodo in 2019 that Mars colonization was unlikely soon. University of Florida neuroscientist Rachel Seidler seconded this opinion, saying that space colonization or putting a human colony on Mars sounded "a bit pie-in-the-sky" even with other people's optimism of achieving it.
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