Elon Musk releases video showing us what life on Mars will be like "in our lifetime"
dailystar.co.ukElon Musk has released a five-minute video showing what the journey to Mars will be like aboard the ambitious SpaceX Starship rocket.Sharing the video in a tweet, Musk said "This will be real in our lifetime."The video shows Starship taking off from Earth with astronauts aboard before embarking on a long journey through space.The Starship then arrives on Mars, where a thriving human settlement appears to be.SpaceX described Starship as “a fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicle" that is "key to a future in which humanity is out exploring the stars." The company is currently preparing for the rocket's first ever orbital test.
It will launch from Starbase in Texas before flying around the Earth for an hour and a half before landing off the coast of Hawaii.As part of the first major Starship update in two years, Musk said: "We have gotten a rough indication that there may be an approval in March".NASA is reportedly terrified about the success of Elon Musk's Starship project, which could see the government-funded space agency become obsolete.Officials at the American space organisation are said to be watching SpaceX's progress with a 'mix of awe and horror', with one Washington space lobbyist saying: "They are sh*tting the bed."The fear is that SpaceX's Starship, a reusable rocket which would make space launches significantly cheaper than before, will be so successful that NASA's own space equipment will be obsolete.While Starship is designed to get people and cargo to the Moon and Mars again and again for $1 million (£735k) per flight, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is years behind schedule and will cost around $2 billion (£1.4 billion) per launch.Elon Musk hopes that one day, humanity will be able to establish a.
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