SpaceX launch news: Could humans ever live on the Moon? Elon Musk thinks YES

The SpaceX CEO said: “We should have a base on the moon, like a permanently occupied human base on the moon, and then send people to Mars,”

“Maybe there is something beyond the space station, but we will see.”

Crew Dragon, which can hold a maximum of seven people, isn’t built for such ambitious exploration work.

But a prototype of the vehicle that could fulfil that dream has already been built, a sleek, stainless-steel rocket called Starship.

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