SpaceX, Elon Musk and Mars
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Elon Musk has unveiled a bold – and detailed – vision for Mars. It starts with one uncrewed Starship traveling to the red planet next year and culminates with thousands of spacecraft headed there every two years,
SpaceX shared a video in which founder Elon Musk gave a timeline for the company's Starship to reach Mars in the years ahead.
Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there in the coming decades,
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket again from Texas after two failed missions. While the rocket flew farther, a door malfunction scrapped the satellite release test.
SpaceX wants to bring humans to Mars by as early as 2028, but it may no longer happen because of the Starship.
The Starship rocket did not achieve some of its most important testing goals, bringing fresh engineering hurdles to CEO Elon Musk's increasingly turbulent Mars rocket program.
The more significant surprise over the past decade has been the shift in Musk’s politics and his controversial rise to prominence in that sector, from his purchase and pivot of Twitter to X to his chainsaw-wielding antics at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year.
Elon Musk has updated the Mars and Starship plans. Starship and the Booster will eventually each be made about 20% more powerful. There will be versions by the end of the year that will be improved by about 5-10%. The new Starship will not have heat ...
Elon Musk’s space company plans to test the huge experimental vehicle on Tuesday, in its first flight after two explosions this year.