SpaceX chief Elon Musk has strongly suggested that the ninth test flight of the massive Starship rocket will take place next week. “Just before the Starship flight next week, I will give a company talk explaining the Mars game plan in Starbase, Texas, that will also be live-streamed on X,” Musk said in a social media post on Wednesday.

Elon Musk's interest in sending humans to Mars is no secret − and he has a plan (and vehicle ... Preparations appear to be underway for SpaceX to launch Starship on its ninth-ever flight test, though the company has not offered a target date.

For decades, humanity has dreamed of establishing human civilization on Mars. This dream is not limited to the public, but has also fascinated scientists and engineers. With the development of SpaceX’s Starship,

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week after the U.S. administration released its proposed budget for the agency, which emphasizes the national goal of landing a human on Mars.

Elon Musk claimed Mars offered humanity ‘life insurance’ as part of a multi-planet civilization before Earth’s incineration by the sun