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Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years - Livescience.com

Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years - Livescience.com

Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years - Livescience.com
Oct 18, 2020 1 min, 3 secs

The private spaceflight company is on track to launch its first uncrewed mission to Mars in as little as four years from now, SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk said Friday (Oct. 16) at the International Mars Society Convention. .

"I think we have a fighting chance of making that second Mars transfer window," Musk said in a discussion with Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin.

That window Musk referred to is a launch opportunity that arises every 26 months for mission to Mars.

NASA, China and the United Arab Emirates all launched missions to mars in July of this year.

The next window opens in 2022 with Musk referring to the 2024 Mars launch opportunity. .

The mission will launch to the Red Planet on a SpaceX Starship vehicle, a reusable rocket-and-spacecraft combo that is currently under development at the company's South Texas facility.

If Musk's projections are correct — he is known for offering overly ambitious timelines — SpaceX's first Mars mission would launch in the same year that NASA astronauts return to the moon under the Artemis program.

SpaceX is also planning to fly space tourists on a Starship mission around the moon in 2023.

The project aims to launch a 165-foot (50 meters) spacecraft atop a massive booster for deep-space missions to the moon, Mars and elsewhere

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