What Starship failure means for Elon Musk's Mars plans

Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars next year are toast

SpaceX’s Starship fails for a third time in a row | Science & technology

You Can Suddenly Sense Elon Musk's Desperation

After eviscerating Tesla's brand through his political mayhem, billionaire Elon Musk is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune. This month, he abruptly proclaimed that he had "done enough," announcing that he would substantially cut down the time he spent reshaping the federal government, efforts that have left permanent scars on Tesla's credibility and image. Instead, he promised that he would refocus the majority of his time on his ail…

What Starship failure means for Elon Musk's Mars plans

Musk has a reputation for over-promising on timings but ultimately delivering era-defining technology - but is this an early sign he has finally reached too far?

What Starship failure means for Elon Musk's Mars plans | Science, Clim

Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars may not have come crashing down to Earth but they’ve certainly suffered a significant setback. The ninth test flight of Starship, the SpaceX spacecraft specifically designed to make “humans an interplanetary species”, ended with it spinning out of control over the Indian Ocean. This was Starship’s third consecutive failure. The machine that was touted as taking humans as far as Mars as soon as 2028 has yet to make…