SpaceX aiming to build a self-growing city on Moon, shifts focus from Mars, Elon Musk says
SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the backburner to prioritize establishing a settlement on the Moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday.
The South Africa-born billionaire’s space company has found massive success as a NASA contractor, but critics have for years panned Musk’s Mars colonization plans as overambitious.
The move also puts Musk in alignment with US President Donald Trump’s shift away from sending Americans to Mars.
