SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has noted that the lower costs of reused rockets could help transport humans to Mars for only $200K each. He isn't vying for the first seat though.

After the successful launch of a reused rocket last week, SpaceX is planning to get the cost of travel down to $200,000.

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The Daily Mail reported that during the recently concluded 33^rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told attendees: "I hope you're all thinking about your tickets to Mars.[Reusability is] really a tremendous capability, and I highly recommend it for all of you."

The $200,000 price tag for the first Mars-bound craft was announced by Musk in 2016 during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The cost of refurbishing a Falcon 9 rocket is reportedly less than half of the cost of building one. Moving forward, SpaceX plans to cut down the cost of reusing a Falcon 9 rocket to a tenth of the cost of building a new one.

Gizmodo, however, reported that some experts do not seem to agree that the trip would only cost $200,000, even with reusable rockets.

"Just from a basic analysis of rockets and gravity, and then doing some back of the envelope calculations on how much you need to take with you to sustain people...200,000 seems very ambitious," Ella Atkins, a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, said.

Going to Mars could be the trip of a lifetime, but it seems that money would not be the only cost. Travelers have also been warned of the possibility of accidents.

Musk has admitted that the first journeys to Mars "will be really very dangerous."

"The risk of fatality will be high. There's just no way around it. Are you prepared to die? If that's okay, then you're a candidate for going," he said.