The reason why Elon Musk and his company SapceX are trying to get to Mars, is that Elon wants to make sure before it’s too late that the human race becomes ‘multi planetary’ Elon feels very strongly about this, and it is his belief that the people of Earth should take on this extraordinary undertaking sooner rather than later. Elon had noticed that Aeronautics companies like NASA did not really have a plan for manned missions to Mars.