SPACEX founder Elon Musk said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year as the company is investigating several recent explosions in flight tests.
Human landings can start as early as 2029 if the initial missions are going well, although “2031 was more likely,” he added in a publication on his social media platform X.
Starship – the biggest rocket ever created at 123 meters – is crucial for Musk's ambitions for colonizing the planet Mars.
However, he suffered numerous damage to the 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 such a “rapidly unplanned dismantling” in January.
SpaceX said it would review the data “for a better understanding () the main reason” of the most explosion and noted that it had happened after the loss of the “several” engines.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the company would be obliged to investigate before it could fly again.
NASA hopes to use a modified version of the spacecraft as a human lunar Lander for its artemis missions to return to the moon.
The technical billionaire has great designs that the rocket system one day will take the people to the moon, and then to Mars, turning people “multi -layered”.
He said Mars's first mission would carry Tesla's humanoid robot “Optimus”, which was shown to the audience last year.
Musk said the robot one day would be able to perform daily tasks and cost between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000.
On Friday, SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket, bearing a crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a plan to return two astronauts home.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had to be on the ISS in just eight days, but due to the technical problems with the experimental spacecraft that appeared, which was built by Boeing, they have been there for more than nine months.