“We Are Going to Go to the Moon. We Are going to have a Base on the Moon. We Are Going to Send People to Mars!” – Elon Musk after Tuesday’s Successful Launch

Source: GP

Space.com reported yesterday:

SpaceX just flew a full-size prototype of its Starship Mars-colonizing spacecraft for the first time ever.

The Starship SN5 test vehicle took to the skies for about 40 seconds this afternoon (Aug. 4) at SpaceX’s facilities near the South Texas village of Boca Chica, performing a small hop that could end up being a big step toward human exploration of the Red Planet.

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“Mars is looking real,” Musk tweeted shortly after today’s test flight.

A tweet of the event was retweeted by President Trump this morning:

Starship takes flight pic.twitter.com/IWvwcA05hl

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 5, 2020

President Trump was excited to see the event and noted that NASA is no longer closed and dead from the Obama years:

NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again. Now it is the most vibrant place of its kind on the Planet…And we have Space Force to go along with it. We have accomplished more than any Administration in first 3 1/2 years. Sorry, but it all doesn’t happen with Sleepy Joe! https://t.co/PRebGIEJaq

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2020

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