“I would not be surprised if we start seeing the first human missions to Mars in the 2030s.” Pioneer Labs CEO @​erika alden d, whose team is engineering five organisms designed to help create livable areas on Mars, lays out her timeline for the Red Planet: "There’s a launch window in 2028… It would be really awesome to also have a search for life and a test that we can grow a first Earth organism.” “There’s another launch window early 2031, and that’s the one where maybe we could actually go there and demonstrate something.” "I’d be shocked if SpaceX doesn’t try to get to Mars in 2028, but I think they might succeed in 2031.” ▻