Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX's New Starship, Designed To Fly To The Moon, Mars And Beyond

"Speaking into gusts of wind at the SpaceX launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, on Saturday night, CEO Elon Musk talked up the space travel giant's newest innovation, the SpaceX vehicle Starship."

"Musk spoke in front of a 50-meter, 200-ton Starship prototype, calling it 'the most inspiring thing that I've ever seen.'"

"He described unique design features of the vehicle and outlined plans to fast-track production of a Starship fleet. His hope, Musk said, is 'to reach orbit in less than six months.'"

"Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has been working toward the goal of making space travel cheaper and accessible to would-be space travelers."

"The Starship is the company's next foray: a large vehicle that could theoretically carry people into space, land safely back on Earth and be fit to turn around and fly again. Being able to return to space multiple times with 'a rapidly reusable orbital rocket,' Musk explained, is key to the company's plans."

"'The critical breakthrough that's needed for us to become a space-faring civilization is to make space travel like air travel. With air travel, when you fly a plane, you fly it many times,' he said."