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SpaceX Shifts Focus to Establishing Moon City Within 10 Years
Elon Musk says SpaceX aims to build a self-growing lunar city within 10 years, delaying Mars missions due to faster travel and more frequent launch windows, Musk stated on X.
- On Sunday, SpaceX announced in an X post that it is prioritizing a moon city over Mars, citing faster launch cycles for quicker development.
- Musk said the shift reflects launch-cycle differences, with Moon launches every 10 days versus Mars every 26 months, enabling faster iteration and prioritization of the Moon.
- Musk described plans for "self-growing bases" and lunar factories while confirming SpaceX will pursue a Mars city starting in five to seven years.
- Recently, SpaceX moved operationally by acquiring xAI and delaying the Artemis 2 moon mission, Musk confirmed on X.
- That stance departs from Elon Musk 's 2020 Mars timeline remarks, including the `If we get lucky, maybe four years` quote and his 2026 human landing goal and ambition for "an entire civilization on Mars".
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Elon Musk has fundamentally changed his space expansion plans. The multibillionaire announced on Sunday that his space company, SpaceX, will now focus on building a “self-sustaining city” on the moon. The previously declared goal was to build a city on Mars. By self-sustaining, Musk means that the growth of a settlement would no longer depend on materials and tools transported from Earth, but would instead be mined and produced locally. Accordin…
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