SpaceX’s Elon Musk unveiled a rocket that can fly to the Moon, Mars—and Shanghai

If Elon Musk has to make his big rocket smaller, he’s going to make sure it still has enormous ambitions. SpaceX’s chief executive updated his company’s plans to colonize Mars at a global space conference in Australia. He described a rocket and spacecraft suitable for transporting humans safely to the surface of the moon in 2022, to a Martian colony by 2024—and from New York to Shanghai in less than 40 minutes. The serial entrepreneur’s speech at the International Astronautical Congress is a sequel to one delivered in 2016 that described the architecture for a rocket system that could take humans to Mars at $200,000 a ticket. More

(Source: Quartz - Sep 30)