Billionaire Elon Musk announced he wants the privately run spacecraft of the SpaceX venture on Mars by 2018 The core of SpaceX’s efforts on Mars will be the Red Dragon space capsule which was revealed by Musk at an event in 2014 The “Red Dragon” missions will be unmanned as they will lay the foundation for more sophisticated future missions The findings could help Musk one day fulfill his goal of colonizing Mars