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Musk says he's 'optimistic' Mars ship will make first trips in 2019
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Elon
Musk says he's making "great progress" toward his goal of getting to
Mars by 2022.*
Speaking during a last-minute appearance at SXSW,
Musk said he thinks SpaceX's
Mars ship will be ready for its
first trips in less than a year.
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"In the short term,
Mars is really about getting the space
ship built, and we're making great progress," he said.
He predicted that the
ship would be ready to take to the skies next year — albeit for short flights only.
"We are building the
first ship, the
first interplanetary
ship right now, and I think we
will be able to do short flights, short sort of up and down flights, probably sometime in the
first half of next year," he said.
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