You Won't Believe What Elon Musk Has Planned Next -- for Mars

It was a speech short on financial details but long on big ideas. In a 42-minute presentation to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, this past week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk updated investors on the latest iteration of his plan to make humans a "multiplanetary" species -- by landing astronauts on Mars for the first time and returning them to the moon.

The upshot? Just years after introducing Earth to the concept of a reusable Falcon 9 rocket, and before even successfully launching its bigger brother, the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX is ready to junk both rocket ships and make them redundant with an even bigger spacecraft: the BFR.

How big will Elon Musk's "BFR" be? Big enough to all but dwarf the International Space Station in comparison. Image source: SpaceX.

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