| manuchandel | Date: Monday, 17-March-2025, 6:45 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Seher Asaf
BBC News
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year, as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.
Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though "2031 was more likely", he added in a post on his social media platform X.
Starship - the largest rocket ever created standing at 123m - is crucial to Musk's ambitions to colonise the planet Mars.
However it has suffered multiple failures in tests - one of the rockets exploded minutes after it was launched from Texas as part of a test last week, the second failure this year after a similar "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in January.
The tech billionaire has grand designs that the rocket system will one day take humans to the Moon, and then on to Mars, making humans "multi-planetary".
Full article/source / read more - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g88y52y8o
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