SpaceX’s founder and CEO published an academic paper earlier this month outlining his vision for a future where the Red Planet is permanently inhabited. Illustration of Musk’s vision for a Mars colony. “The base starts with one ship, then multiple ships, then we start building out the city and making the city bigger, and even bigger.
He’s very late to the table – The Mars Society has been at this for years and Robert Zubrin is a far more qualified leader – http://www.marssociety.org/