Elon Musk eyes 2024 for Mars mission by SpaceX’s Starship
The entrepreneur is hoping the huge rocket will reach orbit in 2021
18 October 2020 - 17:54
SpaceX founder Elon Musk is “80%-90% confident” that the company’s huge new Starship rocket will reach orbit in 2021 and said there’s a chance it will be ready for an uncrewed cargo mission to Mars in 2024.
The initial test flights will be difficult and carry a high risk of failure, Musk said on Friday at a virtual session of the Mars Society’s 2020 conference. “We’ll probably lose a few ships before we get the atmospheric return and landing right,” he said...
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