.Premium China's Mars vagabond (Photograph: Twitter) 4 min read through Last Upgraded: Jul 19 2024|10:29 PM IST.Elon Odor has unveiled an adventurous goal: A million-strong Martian metropolis. For his SpaceX staff, it's a heady mix of sci-fi fantasy (think spacesuits, domed environments, the potential customers of an interplanetary child boom, as well as whizing around in Tesla Cybertrucks on a brand-new globe) and logistical headache. The American entrepreneur's grand blueprint has boosted the inquiry: Can our team actually colonise Mars?At the same time, hundreds of kilometres above Earth, a different story has unfolded. Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore are actually stranded aboard the International Space Station, after a malfunction in their groundbreaking Boeing Starliner. Their long term visit serves as aDisclaimer: These are individual sights of the author. They do certainly not automatically demonstrate the point of view of www.business-standard.com or even the Business Standard newspaperFirst Published: Jul 19 2024|10:29 PM IST.