 "LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE: Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, checks out the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod. His concept rocketship, code-named BFR, will be able to complete a journey from New York to Shanghai in about 3")
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who envisions a human colony on Mars, is planning to create a much larger rocketship code named “BFR” capable of travelling anywhere on Earth in under an hour.
If the concept becomes reality, a journey from New York to Shanghai can be completed in about 30 minutes. The surprise announcement means that Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, which has already disrupted the aerospace industry with reusable launches, plans to ferry humans not just to distant planets but across this one as well.
“If we are going to places like Mars, why not Earth?” Musk said Friday at the
