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Musk: SpaceX could take humans to Mars in 9 years - Jun. 2, 2016

Musk reiterated confidence in his Mars timeline at the Code Conference on Wednesday night.
"If things go according to plan, we should be able to — we should be able to — launch people in 2024, with arrival in 2025," Musk said.
"That's the game plan," he added.

Crazy.

Is he planning to have BFR human certified by then or will the first landing be with the help of multiple Falcon Heavys?

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Crazy.

Is he planning to have BFR human certified by then or will the first landing be with the help of multiple Falcon Heavys?

my guess would be MCT.  itll be unveiled in sept, so thats lots of time to get it ready.

itll beat nasa by like a decade lol

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my guess would be MCT.  itll be unveiled in sept, so thats lots of time to get it ready.

itll beat nasa by like a decade lol

Revealed in Sept but manufacturing and testing will take a while. Could be close!


Also don't fall over!!!

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Revealed in Sept but manufacturing and testing will take a while. Could be close!


Also don't fall over!!!

man they need to figure out a way to bring those back in a less precarious manner. lol

and 5-6 years till first flight, 3-4 years of testing lol  itll be close but i think MCT is the plan

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Safe in port.

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lol that thing looks like its in rough shape

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eutelsat apparently moved up to the 14th.   1030am est early launch

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eutelsat apparently moved up to the 14th.   1030am est early launch

Yay!


And no wonder the leg took damage!!!

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woah ya no wonder!  that bodes well for landing tech that it was able to cope with that!

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Video of landing. https://my.mixtape.moe/alwwju.mp4

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Cruise ship for scale.




And a wicked picture on a comet.

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2013 but whoah The First Gear Discovered in Nature

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so spacex posted a photo of the 4 returned boosters.. one seems to have been repainted!