Here’s my collection of photos and quotes from Elon Musk’s SpaceX announcement of how we become a multi planetary species, today in Guadalajara, Mexico at the International Astronautical Conference.

4x the Saturn V, with a $140K roundtrip cost to Mars. 42 engines on the booster, of course! First ship will be the “Heart of Gold.”
Here’s the simulation video and the full talk with Q&A.

One response to “Elon unveiling the big SpaceX Mars ITS (aka BFR) Rocket today”

  1. Upper stage oxygen tank, for a sense of girth… The rocket is all-composite and the tank is the airframe. This is one of the trickiest parts of the design.

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