MOSCOW - US entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that SpaceX planned to build cities on the Moon and Mars in the coming decades, focusing first on Earth's satellite.
"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," Musk said on X, reported Sputnik/RIA Novosti.
SpaceX also aims to build a Mars city and will begin doing so in five to seven years, he added.
Musk noted that flights to Mars would only be possible during periods when the planets of the Solar System align - every 26 months - and the journey itself would take six months. At the same time, according to the US entrepreneur, rockets to the Moon could be launched every ten days, and the journey itself would take two days, allowing for faster construction of a city on Earth's satellite.
SpaceX is a space technology company founded by Musk in 2002. - BERNAMA