I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.