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Musk: SpaceX to Focus on Building City on Moon Before Mars

He still anticipates work to begin on the first Martian city in five to seven years.
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Musk: SpaceX to Focus on Building City on Moon Before Mars
Concept art of the SpaceX lunar lander slated to be used for Artemis III in 2027. Courtesy of NASA
T.J. Muscaro
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Elon Musk announced that he will be turning SpaceX’s immediate focus away from Mars and toward an effort to establish a city on the moon.

“SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years,” the SpaceX owner said on the social media platform X.

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T.J. Muscaro
T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.