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SpaceX Shifts Focus to Establishing Moon City Within 10 Years
Elon Musk prioritizes lunar city development leveraging faster travel and supply cycles, aiming to secure civilization's future within a decade, while Mars colonization remains a longer-term goal.
- 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 just quietly rewrote his space dream—this time with a lunar address instead of a Martian ZIP code. As the Super Bowl kicked off Sunday, the SpaceX CEO posted on X that his company has "already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon," arguing that...
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