Elon Musk Shares SpaceX Simulation Video to Offer Glimpse at Envisioned Martian Voyage
As the envisioned journey to Mars gains momentum, Elon Musk has dropped a new SpaceX simulation video that offered important updates on his plan to colonize the Red Planet. Musk turned to Instagram to share the said clip ahead of the official unveiling and announcement at the recent International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.
The video reportedly aimed to offer a glimpse of Musk's ambitious vision. The outset of the clip showed the rocket launching into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida until the booster separates from the craft and heads back to Earth. The simulation video also featured a number of people boarding the rocket before leaving Earth.
Musk revealed through the clip that unlike the boosters of previous space ships, the one on SpaceX would be reusable. In the clip, the booster was shown landing back on the same launching point before being filled with gas and blasting off into space again.
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Titled "How the SpaceX Interplanetary Spaceship and Rocket Design Would Work," the simulation video also said that once filled with fuel, the second craft meets with the first space ship to refuel it in space. It also offers a peek at the gigantic solar panels that will be used to give the space ship more power.
"Will be unveiling the new version on Friday afternoon at IAC Adelaide. Certain aspects of the new design and its applications will be unexpected," wrote Musk in his post.
Before unveiling the video, Musk said in a previous statement that Mars was a "fixer-upper of a planet" and proposed to release nuclear bombs on its surface so its atmosphere would heat up and become fit for human colonization.
Musk also revealed on Twitter that his company had messed up a lot before SpaceX finally worked. In a separate video, he showed some "epic explosion footage," which included several rocket-landing fails they had since 2013.
