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Elon Musk hopes to build a permanent base on Mars that can hold millions of people, but NASA astronaut Stanley Love is reluctant to stay there, saying the initial living environment will be extremely difficult, according to news on September 7.

In a recent interview, Love admitted that it was possible to settle on the red planet, but the initial living environment was not expected. He also believes that Musk's goal of sending 1 million people to Mars by 2050 is a bit "unrealistic."

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Rove made his first space flight on the space shuttle Atlantis in the year he joined NASA,2008 in 1998 and has spent more than 300 hours in space.

When asked about Musk's plan to colonize Mars, Rove said: "is it possible to settle on Mars? yes. Will that be fun? no. I think the initial environment will be very terrible, which can be seen from my experience of exploring the South Pole."

Rove said he and seven other people were living in a camp on the Antarctic ice sheet, and they had to live in small tents and carefully eat "small apples the size of ping-pong balls with worms." "We carefully divided the three small apples into eight parts, and everyone got 3/8," he said. "that's the best apple I've ever eaten."

According to Love, the team is very cautious in distributing food because the food supply is very limited. He added: "it will take a long time for Mars to grow apples the size of ping-pong balls, let alone nectarines."

Even Musk himself admitted that the first few astronauts would face extremely difficult conditions on their way to Mars and landing on Mars. He even said that some people may never come back. But over time, things will become relatively easy.

Rove stressed that he did not want to be the first humans to be stationed at Musk's Mars base. "when you come back to New Zealand after six weeks in Antarctica, the soft soil and the fragrance of flowers will make you cry," he said. "

He continued: "Mars is not like going on a picnic. When people live in Antarctica for a long time, I believe that Mars can also survive, but I don't think people will like it there."

In a previous interview, Musk said that his space company SpaceX would continue to launch thousands of starships around 2030 in order to establish a permanent human base on the red planet.

In a podcast by MIT scientist Lex Friedman (Lex Fridman), Musk also expressed his desire to go to Mars frankly and said he would not send astronauts to Mars just to plant flags and leave footprints on Mars.

To go to Mars and establish a permanent base there, SpaceX is developing a starship at its Starbase facility in Texas, and the company is likely to conduct its first orbital test of such a spacecraft later this year.

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