Talk of travelling to Mars has been all the all the rage the past few weeks. In line with that, Elon Musk has given an update on his means of getting there on his Starship.
The plans Musk has for his new fleet is to get people both to Mars and the Moon, but also to decrease travel time around the earth itself.
So we are set up with warming the climate for in-habitation, but what about the journey.
The plan is to start the flights in the coming months under the SpaceX prototypes, and the Mk1 version is set to reach that with high altitude tests in January.
“So this thing is going to take off, fly to 65,000 feet, about 20km, and come back and land. So that giant thing, it’s really going be pretty epic to see that thing take off and come back.”
The Starship itself is 50m tall, which is just over 4 double Decker buses, and it will fly above the booster, titled the Super Heavy.
The first space test flight Musk wants to schedule for mid 2020 with the Mk3 Starship. Unlike most current spaceships, the SpaceX designs all encompass reusable parts.
Musk also has one customer confirmed the Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezaw, who wishes to simply take a trip to the Moon and back with some artists, what a delightful way to spend a holiday.
