Inside SpaceX’s Mission to Send Humans into Deep Space | Foreign Correspondent

In the era of New Space, billionaire Elon Musk is blazing the trail. He’s building a gigantic starship to fly humans further than ever before. In the tiny Texan hamlet of Boca Chica, a huge rocket is being built and tested. It’s Elon Musk’s Starship, a 120-metre-high spacecraft whose mission is to transport humans to the moon and beyond, to Mars. Musk and his company SpaceX are at the forefront of what’s being called ‘New Space’, the rush to commercialise the space sector. His ambition is extraordinary; he wants to colonise the Red Planet. “It’s helpful to have the objective of a self-sustaining city on Mars. This has to be the objective”, says Musk. In his quest to perfect the Starship, Musk has been blowing up prototypes. “He doesn’t really care if it’s messy, he doesn’t really care if it appears to be chaotic, he’s trying to go forward into the future as fast as possible”, says space writer Eric Berger. But the mighty rocket has its critics,