Elon Musk announced that SpaceX is now focused on creating a “self growing city” on the moon, aiming to achieve this goal in less than 10 years. While the company still plans to work towards Musk’s vision of a city on Mars in five to seven years, the priority has shifted to securing humanity’s future on the Moon, which is seen as a quicker endeavor. This change comes after reports indicated SpaceX’s intention to prioritize lunar missions, targeting an uncrewed lunar landing by March 2027, despite Musk’s previous statements emphasizing Mars as the main goal.
Musk has consistently set ambitious timelines for various projects, though many have not materialized on schedule. There is also significant competition from China to return humans to the Moon within this decade, a place humans last visited during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Recently, SpaceX acquired the AI company xAI, which could help enhance its plans for energy-efficient space-based data centers as AI demand grows.
SpaceX is planning a public offering that could generate up to $50 billion, the largest in history. Musk also noted that NASA will make up less than 5% of SpaceX’s revenue this year, emphasizing that most of the revenue comes from the Starlink system. Additionally, Tesla is pivoting towards autonomous driving and robots, with plans to invest $20 billion this year and restructure production at its California factory for manufacturing humanoid robots.
With information from Reuters
