The round-trip journey to Mars is expected to take roughly two years, covering hundreds of millions of miles, with the actual flyby of the planet lasting just a few hours. According to SpaceX, prior to the Mars mission, Chun will participate in the first planned Starship commercial human spaceflight around the Moon.
Despite the time and length of the interstellar trips, Wang said he isn’t concerned.
"I can stare at the map view on airplanes all the way from takeoff through landing, so I think I'm going to enjoy the trip,” he said.
“Mars will no longer become a distant dream,” Wang said. “It will become a reality."
“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars,” Trump said.
