Elon Musk has long said settling Mars is SpaceX’s main objective, but the world’s richest man has now moved his attention to the moon.
His company is targeting an uncrewed lunar landing in March 2027 and has ambitions to create a ‘self-growing city’ on our nearest celestial neighbour.
We can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years, wrote Musk.
He has suggested that space-based data centers may solve the energy constraints currently holding back AI development.
It seems that humanity’s first off-Earth settlement will be a lot closer to home than we thought.
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