Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who envisions a human colony on Mars, is planning to create a new, much larger rocket ship code-named "BFR" capable of travelling anywhere on earth in less than an hour. If the concept becomes reality, a journey from New York to Shanghai could be completed in about 30 minutes. The surprise announcement means that Musk's Space Exploration Technologies, which has already disrupted the aerospace industry with reusable rocket launches, plans to ferry humans not just to distant planets but across this one as well. "If we are going to places like Mars, why not earth?" Musk asked at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, on Friday. Moon base Animation playing on a big screen behind him showed scores of people getting onto a high-speed ferry in New York, then boarding the BFR. The spaceship then headed for Shanghai. Musk said that SpaceX, which has launched 13 rockets so far this year, aims to complete 30 missions for customers next yea...
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