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SpaceX Mars Ship Could Make Short Test Flights in '19, Musk Says
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Elon Musk discusses Mars plans
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk said a rocket ship that his company is building for trips to Mars could make short flights by as early as next year.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is “making good progress on the ship and the booster,” Musk said at the South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas, where he took questions from screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. “I think we will be able to do short flights, short up and down flights, probably in the first half of next year. This is a very big booster and ship.”