Watch: Elon Musk’s Audacious Plan for Putting Humans on Mars

The charismatic founder of SpaceX is presenting his Mars vision to aerospace experts. Here’s how to watch live—and what you need to know.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has famously said he wants to die on Mars—just not on impact.

At 2:30 p.m. ET on September 27, Musk will take the next step toward making that wish come true by announcing his company’s vision for how to get humans to Mars and beyond.

Musk will present this plan in front of a packed crowd of aerospace experts at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico—and to the wider world via a livestream of the presentation, which you can watch above. (Get a brief history of proposed missions to Mars.)

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