This craft could take crew on round-trips to Mars

Within a month or two, Elon Musk says optimistically, this prototype of the Starship spacecraft — without anyone aboard — will blast off to an altitude of 12 miles (19km, 62,336ft), then return to the ground in one piece. It’s going to be pretty epic to see that thing take off and come back,” Musk said late on Saturday at a SpaceX facility outside Brownsville, where Starship is being built.

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