"Long term it's essential for preserving the light of consciousness," because, he said, ultimately something will happen to Earth, either a natural or man-made disaster, to end civilization on the planet. An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is ' hoping' to launch the first orbital flight test of its mammoth Starship rocket in January, a schedule that depends on testing and regulatory approval. The overarching goal of SpaceX "has been to advance space technology such that humanity can become a multi-planetary species and ultimately a spacefaring civilization," he said. Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing. "In order for life to become multi-planetary, we'll need maybe 1,000 ships." Elon Musk says SpaceX will hopefully launch first orbital Starship flight in January. In his hour-long speech broadcast live on YouTube, the founder of SpaceX hammered home his ambitious vision: "What we're aiming to develop with starship is a generalized means of transporting large amounts of mass or people. US space agency NASA is betting on Starship to become the lander used as part of its Artemis program to take humans back to the Moon, in 2025 at the earliest.īut the SpaceX chief has even bigger dreams for this "biggest rocket ever designed." Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is hoping to launch the first orbital flight test of its mammoth Starship rocket in January, depending on testing and regulatory approval. Sometime next year, SpaceX plans to launch the first of 12 Dragons to the. He said Starship would be operational to transport loads outside the framework of tests "in 2023." On the flight home, he recalls, I was trying to understand why rockets were. The billionaire entrepreneur - who also founded electric carmaker Tesla - said he hoped to have completed the launch pad and launch tower this month, before carrying out a series of checks.Īfter the proposed January test launch, he aims for a dozen additional launches or more through the end of 2022. For the upcoming orbital test, it will be decked out with an ultra-powerful first stage dubbed Super Heavy.Īuthorization from the US Federal Aviation Administration is expected "around the end of the year," Musk said.
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