In 2011, Elon Musk promised to put a man on Mars in 10 years. The internet remembers

In 2011, Elon Musk said he would put a man on Mars in the next 10 years. A decade later, the internet wants to know what happened to his promise.

Elon Musk, counted among the world’s richest men today, has long said he wants to make humanity a “multiplanetary species” by establishing a colony on Mars. To this end, his company SpaceX is developing a prototype rocket, Starship, capable of carrying crew and cargo to Mars and beyond. But the mission to put people on Mars has long been in the works. About a decade earlier, Musk had said that humanity would land on the Red Planet in 10 years in the best case scenario.

During an interview with Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, which originally aired in April 2011, Musk was pressed to give a time frame as to when humans could land on Mars.

“Best case, 10 years. Worst case, 15 to 20 years,” Musk responded, adding that SpaceX wanted to be like the “shipping company” that brought people from Europe to America. You can watch the interview here.

Now, a little more than 10 years later, the interview has resurfaced online. In further proof (if any were needed) that the internet never forgets, a Twitter user shared a screenshot of Musk’s quote.
The tweet has gone viral with well over 18,000 ‘likes’ and hundreds of comments.