It has been a busy month for Musk. Time named the world's richest man and founder of the two companies, who also happens to be a pop singer, the person of the year, but he also got into a spat with a politician he branded "Senator Karen" and got a new haircut after splitting with his girlfriend.
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The lunar landers work is being resumed.
The work on the lunar-landers has beenresumed by the NASA.
If the gremlins of spaceflight choose to play with the launch schedule, next month or a few weeks beyond, it could be an achievement to surpass anything Musk has done before.
The first test launch of the largest and most powerful rocket ship ever to leave Earth is seen by many as a pathway back to the moon for the first time in half a century and maybe the first vehicle to eventually land.
The project that began life in Musk's mind more than a decade ago is just as ambitious as his statement this week that he will be surprised if we don't land on Mars within five years.
The cost of space travel will be greatly reduced by the fact that all components are fully re-usable. It has an in-flight refueling capacity that allows for more frequent and efficient operations.
The visionary behind the return to human spaceflight from US soil last year is confident that his 395ft (120m) spaceship, a full 32ft taller than the Apollo-era Saturn V, can deliver.
The Apollo 11 space vehicle lifted off on July 16, 1969 with astronauts NeilArmstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin aboard. The images are from NASA and the Agence France-Presse.
Time magazine acknowledged that humankind's greatest achievements come from unconventional minds. It said that Musk is a man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.
Musk had challenged the traditional rules of spaceflight with great success, according to Sean O'Keefe, a former head of Nasa.
Whenever there has been doubt about his ability to accomplish something, he has focused his attention, expertise and talent to go out and demonstrate that you can do.
That is what this is. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
The lunar surface is reachable by multiple means but also by commercial sources that can do the regular resupply and so forth, which will be extremely beneficial.
The entire craft will be sent to the launchpad at Starbase this week, after the Super Heavy booster rocket propels it into space. The ability to lift up to 165 tons from the Earth's surface is almost twice as powerful as the Saturn V rockets that sent 12 astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972.
Two spaceships are inside the South Texas build site. There is a photograph of Reggie Mathalone.
According to a planetary scientist at the Ames research center in California, you can really take advantage of the Starship architecture and get to the outer solar system in ways we haven't thought about before. It could be a new way of exploring these worlds.
There are other innovative and speculative uses for the new spaceship.
Musk has made no secret of his desire to colonize Mars and the moon.
He told Time that the next big thing was to build a city on Mars and bring the animals and creatures of Earth there. It was like a Noah's ark. It is a little weird if there is only two.
The ability to land astronauts back on the moon is only one of two that are in production. The SLS, part of the Artemis program, has suffered budget overruns and delays and will not be ready for crewed landing until at least 2025.
The lunar surface can be reached by multiple means, but also by commercial sources that can do the regular resupply.
Sean O'Keefe is a person.
Musk and his company won a NASA contract to build a lunar lander and then sued Blue Origin, which was founded by Bezos.
There is no firm date for the orbital test launch of Starship, which will follow a series of successful suborbital flights from Texas over the last two years. If successful, Musk has said up to a dozen more flights could follow, with the first lunar voyage of the space tourism venture funded by Yusaku Maezawa set for 2023.
Despite its size and innovation, O'Keefe remains cautious about the ability of humans to travel deeper into space, given that it relies on the same chemical propulsion systems used in spaceflight.
He said thatMars is 65m away. If you add space propulsion, we can cut the distance, but right now we don't. We don't have the means to do it. No one on the rock knows how to do that.
The second thing we don't have is the means to protect human life. The radioactivity is so extraordinary that you wouldn't make it, and less get back. The two fundamental limitations that I see to anyone being able to achieve anything beyond the lunar objective are:
