Elon Musk says his next spaceship could not only take to you the moon and Mars, but from N.Y. to London in 29 minutes

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Elon Musk says his next spaceship could not only take to you the moon and Mars, but from N.Y. 
> to London in 29 minutes
> Date: September 29, 2017 at 8:07:35 AM EDT
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> Elon Musk says his next spaceship could not only take to you the moon and Mars, but from N.Y. to London in 29 minutes
> By Christian Davenport
> Sep 29 2017
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/09/29/elon-musk-says-his-next-spaceship-could-not-only-take-to-you-the-moon-and-mars-but-from-n-y-to-london-in-29-minutes/>
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> For years, Elon Musk has been focused on building a colony on Mars. It’s why he founded SpaceX in 2002, and it’s been 
> the driving force behind it ever since.
>
> But during a speech in Adelaide, Australia, Friday morning, Musk said he has dramatically expanded his 
> already-outsize ambitions. In addition to helping create a city on the Red Planet, he said the next rocket he intends 
> to build would also be capable of helping create a base camp on the moon — and flying people across the globe.
>
> “It’s 2017, we should have a lunar base by now,” he said during a 40-minute speech at the International Astronautical 
> Congress. “What the hell has been going on?”
>
> In a surprise twist, he also said the massive rocket and spaceship, which would have more pressurized passenger space 
> than an Airbus A380 airplane, could also fly passengers anywhere on Earth in less than an hour. Traveling at a 
> maximum speed of more than 18,000 mph, a trip from New York to Shanghai, for example, would take 39 minutes, he said. 
> New York to London could be done in 29 minutes.
>
> “If we’re building this thing to go to the moon and Mars, why not go other places as well?” he said.
>
> The speech was billed as an update to one he gave a year ago, in which he provided details for how SpaceX would make 
> humanity a “multi-planet species.”
>
> At the speech a year ago, Musk unveiled a behemoth of a rocket that was so ambitious and mind-bogglingly large that 
> critics said it was detached from reality. Now, he and his team at SpaceX have done some editing, and Musk presented 
> a revised plan early Friday to build a massive, but more reasonably sized, rocket that he calls the BFR, or Big 
> [expletive] Rocket.
>
> “I think we’ve figured out how to pay for it, this is very important,” he said.
>
> The new fully reusable system includes a booster stage and a spaceship capable of carrying 100 people or so. It would 
> be capable of flying astronauts and cargo on an array of missions, from across the globe, to the International Space 
> Station in low Earth orbit and to the moon and Mars in deep space. It’d also be capable of launching satellites, he 
> said, while effectively replacing all of the rockets and spacecraft SpaceX currently uses or is developing, making 
> them redundant.
>
> That would allow the company to put all of its resources into development of the BFR, he said.
>
> Earlier this year, Musk announced that SpaceX would fly two private citizens in a trip around the moon by late next 
> year. And he hinted at the moon base during a conference in July.
>
> “If you want to get the public really fired up, I think we’ve got to have a base on the moon. That’d be pretty cool. 
> And then going beyond there and getting people to Mars,” he said. “That’s the continuance of the dream of Apollo that 
> I think people are really looking for.”
>
> But Friday morning he made it clear that Mars is still the ultimate goal. During his talk, a chart showed that SpaceX 
> planned to fly two cargo missions to Mars by 2022, a very ambitious timeline.
>
> [snip]
>
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