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Its been more than two years since SpaceX announced its plans for long distance travel onboard what it now calls its Starship. The promise: rocketing up to 1,000 people anywhere on Earth, no matter how far, in under one hour an experience Musk likened to Disneys Space Mountain ride earlier this year.<\/p>\n
SpaceX has since made a ton of progress on Starship. And in a Monday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dropped a new tidbit: Starship spaceports will probably need to be [about] 20 miles offshore for acceptable noise levels, especially for frequent daily flights.<\/p>\n
COO Gwynne Shotwell confirmed that the company is still committed to its plans for a transportation system involving Starship in a May 2018 TED Talk.<\/p>\n
This is definitely going to happen, she said, adding that it would probably take roughly ten years.<\/p>\n
So how will passengers get from the city to these offshore spaceports? Musk suggested in a May 2018 tweet that SpaceX will use underground shuttles.<\/p>\n
Its a futuristic vision. But even with ten years, SpaceX has a lot of work to do. The company has yet to launch a fully-equipped Starship rocket, after all, let alone one with passengers on board.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Starship: heres where SpaceX will build those inter-Earth spaceports [Inverse]<\/p>\n
More on Starship: SpaceX Definitely Plans to Land Starship on Moon by 2022<\/p>\n
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