Spacex founder Elon Musk said his Starsship Rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year, as the company explores several recent explosions in flight tests.
Human landings could start as early as 2029. If the initial missions are going well, although “2031 was more likely,” he added in his post on his platform of social media X.
Starship – The largest rocket ever created at 123 m – is key to the men’s ambitions to colonize the planet Mars.
However, he suffered multiple failures in the tests – one of the rockets exploded a few minutes after being launched from Texas as part of the test last week, which in January is the second failure this year after a similar “fast unplanned disassembly” in January.
Spacex said he would review the data “in order to better understand [the] The root cause of “the latest explosion and noted that this happened after the loss of a” several “engine.
The Federal Air Force Administration (FAA) said the company would be needed to conduct an investigation before it could fly again.
Nasa hopes to use a modified version of the space ship as a human lunar land to bring his missions back to the moon.
The technological billionaire has large designs that the rocket system will one day take people to the moon and then to Mars, making people “multi-planetary”.
He said that the first Martian mission would wear Tesla’s humanoid robot “Optimus”, which was shown to the public last year.
Musk said the robot would one day be able to do their daily tasks and cost between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000.
On Friday, Spacex launched its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a plan to restore two astronauts home.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to be on ISS for only eight days, but because of technical problems with experimental spacecraft, they entered, which built Boeing, they have been there for more than nine months.
