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Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with SpaceX.
SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in hopes of saving humanity from certain doom.
Musk presented his sweeping vision at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, during a roughly 63-minute speech.
You can watch the entire talk on YouTube, which includes a Q&A session at the end.
Or you can keep scrolling to read through a full transcript that Business Insider made of his presentation, paired with Musk's slide deck that SpaceX recently released. (Note: We've made minor edits to reduce word repetition and spontaneous speech.)