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<\/div>To the ISS and Beyond<\/h2>
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hasn’t gotten much sleep this weekend. But true to form, he’s already dreaming of something far more ambitious.<\/p>
“To be frank, I’m a little emotionally exhausted,” Musk said at a post-launch press conference<\/a> at four o’clock in the morning on Saturday. “Because that was super stressful. But it worked, so far.”<\/p> The private space company has achieved a lot within the last 48 hours. Their futuristic passenger spacecraft Crew Dragon launched early Saturday morning<\/a> from the Kennedy Space Center and successfully docked autonomously with the International Space Station some 26 hours later<\/a>.<\/p> If all goes well, two astronauts will fly on board the spacecraft to the ISS as soon as July.<\/p> But, as expected, Musk has much bigger plans — for traveling to beyond Earth’s orbit. “We should have a base on the moon, like a permanently occupied human base on the moon, and then send people to Mars,” Musk said at the press event. “Maybe there’s something beyond the space station, but we’ll see.”<\/p> Earlier this year, Musk admitted that he wanted to get to the Moon – and “as fast as possible,” he wrote in a Jan 31 tweet<\/a>.<\/p> The vehicle that could fulfill that dream: the stainless-steel monstrosity<\/a> dubbed Starship. But getting Starship to the Moon will be a much harder feat to pull off than any NASA project ever.<\/p> “It won’t be easy for us or SpaceX,” Walt Engelund, director of Space Technology and Exploration Directorate at NASA, told Business Insider<\/em><\/a> in a February interview.<\/p> But one step at a time. “We’ve got to focus on getting [the Crew Dragon missions] right, for sure. That’s the priority,” Musk admitted at Saturday’s press event.<\/p> “But then, after that, maybe something beyond low-Earth orbit.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Elon Musk says he would ride SpaceX’s new Dragon spaceship into orbit — and build a moon base with NASA<\/a> [Business Insider<\/em>] More on Crew Dragon:<\/strong> Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Dock Autonomously With the ISS<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Elon Musk Wants to Build a “Permanently Occupied Human Base” on the Moon<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Continued here: To the ISS and Beyond SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hasn\u2019t gotten much sleep this weekend. But true to form, he\u2019s already dreaming of something far more ambitious. \u201cTo be frank, I\u2019m a little emotionally exhausted,\u201d Musk said at a post-launch press conference at four o\u2019clock in the morning on Saturday. Continue reading Beyond Earth’s Orbit<\/h2>
The Starship Enterprise<\/h2>
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