Bill Gates: Wrong to invest now in technologies for flights to Mars

Billionaire Bill Gates has said he would rather pay for vaccines than traveling to Mars, which he does not think is a good use of money, Report informs referring to BBC.

"It's actually quite expensive to go to Mars. You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 (£814) per life saved," he said.

"And so [that] just kind of grounds you, as in - don't go to Mars."

Fellow entrepreneur Elon Musk has said he wants to colonies Mars, while Jeff Bezos has also joined the "space race".

SpaceX, the rocket company co-founded by Musk in 2002, has made it an ultimate goal to send crewed flights to Mars and eventually colonies the Red Planet.